February 15, 2017, TGIW: Unhumping Hump Day…KISS Happy
By Darrell Gurney | Blog
“If you want to be happy, be.” –Leo Tolstoy
If we wanted, we could just keep-it-simple-stupid (KISS) the quote above and that would be that.
But sometimes the simplest of truths call forth our complication-making machinery.
We entertain this reason or that, compelling “evidence” that it’s just not possible.
The more legitimate the reason, the more we negate the simple truth.
So we invent cognitive therapy techniques to teach us to choose the happy thought.
Training is good…and yet we can train ourselves every moment of every day.
I like the thought that the way to be happy is to decide every morning that I’m in a good mood.
I also like the thought that sometimes happiness is a feeling, and sometimes it’s a choice.
All feelings aside, what’s your biggest choice today?
Got KISS happy?
“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.” –Ralph Marston