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Are Most People As Happy As They Decide To Be?
Posted by Ron Rogers in Bloggers Bug Stream
Abraham Lincoln wrote: ”Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Can we make up our minds to be happy? Is it only a simple decision I make that results in me being happy?
Let’s try this idea of becoming happy by deciding to be happy. As I wrote the previous sentence, I was unhappy. As I write this sentence, I’m still unhappy. But, I haven’t consciously made up my mind, yet, to be happy!
Before “I make up my mind to be happy,” let’s first consider what making up my mind means. The title of this post uses the word decide instead of making up my mind. From my point of view, “making up my mind” and “deciding” are synonymous. With that in mind, let’s now see if I can decide to be happy.
OK, I have now declared in my mind that I want to be happy. My mind is made up, I’m now happy. The decision has been reached that I am happy!
Am I happy? Well, yes, I do feel happy. At least, I feel much happier than I did when I started writing this. Why? Is my happiness simply the result of being able to only think one thought at a time? Perhaps! I think an unhappy thought and I’m unhappy; I think a happy thought and I’m happy. Wow, that sounds soooo… simple!
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As one of way-too-few that tries to liven up a room (so much so that I’m called to task for it more often than I thought I’d ever hear about it), I have to say ABSOLUTELY. The point of having a job, isn’t that you wallow in what “you have been given” but rather what you make of what you’re experiencing. I hate that is so abundantly clear to me, and not to way too many others in authority of things around us.