You create your reality

The Dalai Lama says the first step towards happiness is in learning.

I've been doing a lot of self-help reading and thinking and listening lately. Excerpts from books on tape and quotes around the net. One theme I have been bumping into over and over is about happiness. You cannot depend on someone else for your happiness. It is no one's responsibility but yourself to be happy.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings YOU the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run." - David Leonhardt

Happiness is not something that comes to you; it's not something you receive from other people. It is something you create now, today. Waiting for something or someone to change in order to be happy is waiting to live your life. It is not what happens to you that counts. It is how you react to what happens to you. It is your attitude. When you adopt a positive attitude, life becomes a rewarding adventure instead of something to get through.

Life should be an adventure! An awfully big adventure!

Whether you want more happiness in your life or some sort of purpose, you have to live, right? But the problem is, most people are looking in all the wrong places. Career. Money. Relationships. Power. Yet, esoteric teachings claim all answers lie within you. It's not about what car you drive or how many friends you have. There is nothing externally which can bring you true happiness. You can surround yourself and suck the energy out of your environment but eventually it will be sucked dry. And what will you have left...you...going through withdrawal...needing to get a fix of the external something which you depended on for happiness.

Ah well, I have to get working now, but I thought I'd share my brain waves this morning. Happy Friday!

Labels: funny, happiness, learning, pain, self help