Don’t just wait for happiness

Don’t just wait for happiness

There are several approaches to enjoying more happiness in life; too many to list fully here.

But a few of the more obvious include:

  • sitting and waiting for good things to happen, for joy to mysteriously appear from nowhere
  • creating happiness by actively making good things happen and actively making a life that’s positive and enjoyable
  • and searching for and more mindfully noticing, and savouring, the happiness that already exists in the world and in your world

Today, I want to focus JUST on the third option, partly because the first is untenable and unhelpful, and the second is something about which I, and many others, have written about many times before.

You see the thing is, we don’t always need to create more happiness. It’s already there, waiting to be discovered! 

Too often too many of us overlook the satisfaction in completing an apparently minor or even inconsequential task, the feeling of connection when we spend time with another, maybe over a cup of tea or coffee, the joy when we hear or see something or someone being funny, and / or the wonder in admiring the beauty in a song, a tree, a flower or a sunset.

These moments of happiness can and usually do occur each and every day, multiple times each day. And yet, as noted, too many of us overlook them. 

So make an effort today, and tomorrow etcetera, to mindfully observe all that’s good, all who do good, all that’s fun and funny and, well, anything that might brighten your day and life even if just for a few minutes.

Because maybe that is life, a happy life, a collection of lovely minutes?!?!