Want To Be Happier? Do Something You’re Proud Of!

Many, if not all of us, want to be happier, don’t we? I certainly think so, being happy easily beats being sad!

So, if we agree on that, how do we do it? One way to be happier, is to do something good, something you are proud of. And the reality is that doing good things can actually be easy, if you pay attention to people around you, and what they want or need.

Or if there is a thing you’re interested in, but you’re not sure if it’s the kind of thing you can do, because you don’t have any qualifications for it, then think more carefully about it — is your interested deep enough to make up for actual qualifications? I think you’ll find sometimes, enough interest can in fact be enough.

Now, don’t misinterpret me, I’m not talking about medical things, or flying a plane, but other things, like perhaps teaching creative writing, if you’re a writer, well if you do that for other people, who’d never thought they were capable of doing anything creative, that’s an awesome thing!

If you can do that, it makes you happy, and you feel proud of yourself for doing it, when you see how much joy you can bring to other people, when you do this kind of thing, you’re right to be proud of yourself, whenever you help people, and even if making yourself proud wasn’t why you do this, and being happier wasn’t either, but there you are!

Proud of yourself for helping people learn things, or for managing to do something difficult, when you never…