How to Lead a Happy Life

Everyone wants to lead a happy life but few know how to do it practically in life. First one must understand what he exactly means by happiness in life. Only based on that, can he organize his life properly. For some, money brings happiness; for many others, it their official position and the clout, for some others it is their personal relationship with others, for yet others, it their hobbies, games and entertainments. All these sources are perfectly normal sources of happiness and one wonders, why people, in spite of so many sources, are still unhappy or prefer to be sad always. It's really intriguing to analyze human character in this aspect. Let's see some of the really potential sources for genuine happiness, which are easily available to anyone, just for the asking.

1. Take care of your health : Without health, nothing, however much enjoyable, is really worthwhile because you simply can't enjoy any of them when you are not physically alright. So, by all means and at all times, give top priority to the maintenance of good health. It is not going to be a very great effort to maintain a good health, but people's sheer carelessness, ignorance and indifference in this regard makes it a big issue, and many individuals pay a heavy price for being careless about their health. Wise people should learn from others' mistakes and so we must avoid the very same mistakes which so many others so often commit and suffer from the same. A simple lifestyle, proper and timely food intake, preferably healthy and nutritious food items, avoidance of taking junk foods on a regular basis ( taking them once in a way is okay), having enough of physical activity, in the form of work or play ( only when these options are not available, one has to go for physical exercises or to the gyms), and having clean habits and taking enough rest, is all that is required to maintain a robust health. Is it a tall order to ask for? Any sensible person can easily do it and derive immense benefit out of it. So if you are not already enjoying it this way, check your ways of living, and take remedial steps to put them back on the rails.

2. Take care of your Family : A well maintained family is another valuable source of happiness. Most of the problems in our life emanate from one or more of our family members, and for this, they alone are not to blame. A little bit of objective analysis will point out to you how you can defuse the family problems by being more understanding, more cooperative and more tolerant with others. An intelligent member can always, not only solve his/her own problems but also could help solve others' problems as well. Why don't you be that intelligent member who brings happiness to the entire family, where everyone is going to share and benefit by it. Won't they be thankful to you when you do that, and won't you be proud of your own achievement? Our parents can be a source of great help, advice, guidance and happiness, when we are young. Our children can be a source of great joy, celebration, inspiration and unmixed excitement, if we are already parents. Do we get the full benefit of happiness from our parents, siblings and our children? If not, we must immediately do something about it before time flies away, taking even our own quota of happiness along with it.

3. Take care of your Work : Work not only provides us sustenance for our families; it is the very substance that life is made of . So no use trying to shirk, ignore, hate, postpone or regret work. Instead take a pragmatic view of work and try to make it another valuable source of happiness. We meet our valuable friends and associates only at our workplaces and this alone is good enough to make our workplaces a source of great joy and celebration. Some of the dynamic organizations have recognized this valuable fact and they try to motivate their workforce for greater productivity by encouraging them to adopt a celebrating attitude towards their work. This is a commendable work culture. Whether your company promotes this culture or not, you, as an enterprising individual, can propagate this culture among your colleagues and everybody will benefit from the spread of this culture. Work spot is going to be a wonderful spot.

4. Have a heart for others - It's light on you, It's light for you ! How often we are going to think about, and care for, others is going to decide how often we are going to be happy in our own lives. It is as simple as that. Giving is a divine quality, and naturally it must bring sheer bliss in its wings. The pleasure of giving is the most powerful tonic for your heart and health, and those who are in the habit of giving will vouchsafe the fact that they rarely beat the track to the doctor's clinic or nursing home. You don't have to be fabulously rich to give away to others - but, of course, you have to have a rich heart ! It's worth developing the giving habit, because it benefits all concerned, including the society at large.

5. Have an Open Mind : An open mind brings in a lot of fresh thoughts and feelings and that's going to make you feel good. On the other hand, closed minds can only have darkness, and darkness can only breed negative and gloomy thoughts. Why allow your mind to be a sanctuary for dismal birds. Invite only cheerful birds into your mind garden and let them sing only melodious songs of health and happiness. God Almighty has created all of us with a definite purpose and that purpose is to be happy always and to make others also happy to the possible extent by us. So let us not disappoint Him by always grumbling and complaining. Instead let us fulfill our mission on this earth by always being happy and singing His praise !

Life on this earth could be Heaven or Hell for us, depending on how we are going to make it for ourselves and for others. Let us make a wise decision.