Happy International Happiness Day!

Happiness does not come just like that. Having today Thursday March the 20th as the International Day of happiness we can look at the elements which can make happiness coming into being and having happiness being the drive to bring more happiness to all in the world.

Important in our life is that we come to understand that we will be able to do more in our own live and in the life of others when we share the Christian brotherly love and the message of the Good News of the coming Kingdom of God. Sharing the peace of Jeshua (Jesus Christ) with others we can give them a taste of happiness which can create more productivity. Happy people accomplish more.

The world has become so materialistic they think all their productivity and gains of money will bring them happiness. But perhaps they may gain temporary worldly success, it shall not be a guaranty for happiness in their own family.

Conventional wisdom may hold that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. Most people would like to hold on on that and would be happy having a great job. True without some good satisfying work it would be more difficult to build up the happiness. But it is not by winning that next promotion, being in physical good shape, belonging to those praised societies, that happiness will be fortified.

Recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive at work. This isn’t just an empty mantra. This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe.

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Please find also to read:

1. Have a real happy day today!
2. Leaving the Old World to find better pastures
3. If you want to go far in life
4. Live …
5. Being Religious and Spiritual 1 Immateriality and Spiritual experience
6. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
7. By counting our blessings we not only feel good, but we multiply our good
8. Spreading good cheer contagious
9. Bringing Good News into the world
10. Bringing Good News
11. Proclaiming shalom, bringing good news of good things, announcing salvation
12. A Small Act Of Kindness Can Bring Smile On Million Faces
13. Make your happiness independent of circumstances and others.
14. Show Them How..
15. Finally Happy.
16. How shall the film of your life be?
17. Rest thy delight on Jehovah
18. Foundation to go the distance
19. When discouraged facing opposition
20. Be happy that the thorn bush has roses
21. Suffering produces perseverance
22. Partakers of the sufferings
23. Compassion and Discipline
24. If you have integrity
25. Faith and trial
26. Concerning Gospelfaith
27. Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
28. Everything that is done in the world is done by hope
29. Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark
30. Wondering
31. The thought of losing rekindles the joy of having
32. Joy is not in things, it is in us
33. Joy: Foundation for a Positive Life
34. Better loaves when the heart is joyous
35. Happiness is like manna
36. Thirst for happiness and meaning
37. Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past
38. Happiness an inner state
39. Remember there’s a light in the next day
40. A concrete picture of what is to come in the future
41. Living in faith
42. Self-development, self-control, meditation, beliefs and spirituality
43. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
44. The truest greatness lies in being kind
45. Whom can we trust to govern us?
46. Commit your self to the trustworthy creator
47. Looking forward to the return of Jesus

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Additional reading:

1. How Can It Get Any Better Than This?
2. Freedom is mine and I know how it feels…
3. Negativity Spiral
4. Living With(out) Regret and Negative Feelings
5. Happy/ hap.py/ ‘hape/ adj
6. Happiness Log Technique
7. #100HappyDays
8. Does money buy happiness?
9. Secret to happiness
10. Happiness Is A Feeling
11. Finally Happy.
12. 60 Things to Be Grateful For In Life
13. Elusive Things
14. Count your blessings and take time to help others
15. “Count your blessings, name them one by one…”
16. As We Count Our Blessings (a Mom’s Memories post) | It’s Not All Bad…
17. Blessed
18. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
19. Practicing Gratitude and Thankfulness
20. Contagious Happiness
21. Love
22. Where’s the Love?
23. Is Your Message Contagious?
24. 19 Simple Things Everyone Can Do To Make Life Easier For Each Other
25. My current easy dream…
26. Watch out! It’s contagious!
27. Gloomy Thinking Can Be Contagious
28. The Reason Some People Always Focus On The Negative
29. Hanging in there … Week #2 MKMMA experience
30. Gratitude – I claim my power | faithgift
31. Thanksgiving: Gratitude | Journey Through Recovery
32. Sugar, Spice, and the Teenage Life
33. Where is the edge

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  What specifically impacts our happiness and how can we shift it?
  The three greatest predictors of happiness are optimism (the belief your behavior will eventually matter), social connection, and how we perceive stress (as a challenge or as a threat).  If we want to raise happiness we need to make both mindset and behavior shifts.

  What are the five key steps that we can take each day to increase our experience of happiness?

  1)      Bring gratitude to mind – Write down three NEW things that you are grateful for each day

  2)      Journal – About a positive experience you’ve had recently for 2 minutes once a day

  3)      Exercise –  Engage in 15 minutes of mindful cardio activity

  4)      Meditate – Watch your breath go in and out for 2 minutes a day and

  5)      Engage in a random, conscious act of kindness –  Write a 2-minute positive email thanking a friend or colleague, or compliment someone you admire on social media

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