How To Be Happy - 5 Favorite Ways on How To Be Happy

Nobody is happy all of the time, but some people are definitely more fulfilled than others. Studies on what makes people happy have revealed that it doesn't have much to do with material goods or high achievement, it seems to whittle down to your outlook on life, and the quality of your relationships with the people around you.

So here are my Top 5 favorite ways on How to be happy.

1. Be optimistic. In the 1970s, researchers followed people who had won the lottery and found that a year after they'd hit the jackpot, they were no happier than the people who didn't. They called it hedonic adaptation.

Hedonic Adaptation suggests that we each have a baseline level of happiness. No matter what happens, good or bad, the effect on our happiness is only temporary and we tend to rebound back to our baseline level once the nostalgia where's off.

Some people have a higher baseline happiness level than others, and that can be attributed in part to genetics, but it's also largely influenced by how you think. So, while the remainder of this article will help boost your happiness, only improving your attitude towards life will increase your happiness permanently.

2. Follow your gut. In one study that was done, two groups of people were asked to pick out a poster to take home. One group was asked to analyze their decision carefully, weighing the pros and cons, and the other group was told to listen to their gut. Two weeks later, the group that followed their gut was happier with their posters than the group that analyzed their decisions.

Now, some of our decisions are more crucial than picking out posters, but by the time you're poring over your choice, the options you're weighing are probably very similar, and the difference will only temporarily affect your happiness.

So next time you have a decision to make, and you're down to two or three options, just pick the one that feels right, and go with it.

3. Make enough money to meet your basic needs like food, shelter, and clothing and make sure you eliminate any and all debt you have as fast as possible. Any money you make beyond that will have negligible effects on your happiness.

Remember the lottery winners mentioned earlier? Oodles of money didn't make them any happier, and it won't make you any happier. Once you make enough money to support your basic needs, your happiness is not significantly affected by how much money you make.

Your comfort may increase with your salary, but comfort isn't what makes people happy. It makes people bored. That's why it's important to push beyond your comfort zone to fuel your growth as a person, entrepreneur, and leader.

Part of the reason many people are unhappy is because they don't think research-based advice about happiness applies to them, and they continue chasing more money, achievement, and material goods in vain.

4. Stay close to friends and family. We live in a mobile society, where people follow jobs around the country and sometimes around the world. We do this because we think increases in salary will make us happier, but the fact is that our relationships with our friends and family have a far greater impact on our happiness than our jobs do.

So next time you think about relocating, consider the salary increase you'll need to compensate for the loss of happiness you'd have from moving away from your friends and family.

5. Stop expecting your job or business to make you happy. Many people expect the right job or the right business to dramatically change their level of happiness, but happiness research makes it clear that your level of optimism and the quality of your relationships are far greater the satisfaction you gain from your job or business.

If you have a positive outlook, you'll make the best of any situation, and if you have good relationships with people, you won't depend on your job or business to give your life a greater sense of meaning. You'll find it in your interactions with the people you care about.

Now that doesn't mean you shouldn't aspire towards a business that'll make you happier, it means you should understand that the capacity of your business to make you happy is quite small in comparison to your outlook on life and your relationships with people.

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Talk soon,

David Dallore