My 12 Mantras For Happiness
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22 August 2022
I am on the whole a happy person. Yes, occasionally I may get irritated and annoyed by people or circumstances, but I usually bounce out of that quickly. Why so? Because I have these twelve mantras for happiness.
1. Don't keep wishing for things you don't have, but appreciate what you do have. If they mean that much, put into plan a goal to obtain it.
2. If someone offends you, you may talk about it once, and then move on. No need to keep wallow in it. Time is better spent enjoying all possibilities for happiness.
3. If someone asks to borrow something you aren't comfortable to lend, don't be shy to decline. And this includes lending money, your car, even a book. You have sovereignty over your own possessions.
4. Do something nice to people, even total strangers, for no apparent reason. If you are able to help someone acquire success, rejoice in their success.
5. Be curious of things and places and be willing to learn new things, discover new places, acquire more knowledge, regardless your age.
6. Accumulate not material stuff but accomplishments which no fire can burn and no thief can steal.
7. If you have enough to eat, enough for a some entertainment, learn to be satisfied.
8. Don't compare yourself to your friends and acquaintances.
9. Money is not everything. Be willing to let go the pursue of money, if doing so with give you a more enriching life.
10. Don't let things you can't change affect you. Politics for example. Unless you are a politician yourself and can improve people's lives through politics, treat politics like the weather.
11. Medals and certificates should not mean anything in your life. Your life's fulfillment should not be grounded on the validation of medals and certificates.
12. And the final mantra: be in love with your spouse the whole time, and let him/her know that, regularly, even daily. There isn't yet a spouse on earth who has heard an I love you too often.
I am on the whole a happy person. Yes, occasionally I may get irritated and annoyed by people or circumstances, but I usually bounce out of that quickly. Why so? Because I have these twelve mantras for happiness.
1. Don't keep wishing for things you don't have, but appreciate what you do have. If they mean that much, put into plan a goal to obtain it.
2. If someone offends you, you may talk about it once, and then move on. No need to keep wallow in it. Time is better spent enjoying all possibilities for happiness.
3. If someone asks to borrow something you aren't comfortable to lend, don't be shy to decline. And this includes lending money, your car, even a book. You have sovereignty over your own possessions.
4. Do something nice to people, even total strangers, for no apparent reason. If you are able to help someone acquire success, rejoice in their success.
5. Be curious of things and places and be willing to learn new things, discover new places, acquire more knowledge, regardless your age.
6. Accumulate not material stuff but accomplishments which no fire can burn and no thief can steal.
7. If you have enough to eat, enough for a some entertainment, learn to be satisfied.
8. Don't compare yourself to your friends and acquaintances.
9. Money is not everything. Be willing to let go the pursue of money, if doing so with give you a more enriching life.
10. Don't let things you can't change affect you. Politics for example. Unless you are a politician yourself and can improve people's lives through politics, treat politics like the weather.
11. Medals and certificates should not mean anything in your life. Your life's fulfillment should not be grounded on the validation of medals and certificates.
12. And the final mantra: be in love with your spouse the whole time, and let him/her know that, regularly, even daily. There isn't yet a spouse on earth who has heard an I love you too often.
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