Happiness! We all strive for it. I even have it on my 60 by 60 list. In fact, it is #31. I wrote…Wake up each morning filled with happiness and joy, knowing this day will be even better than the previous day. And I do wake up each morning now asking myself how I’m feeling.
Please know, it’s not that I’m unhappy. It was just some days were filled with a lot of happiness and joy. Then there were some days that were downright dreary. And there were days that were just ho-hum.
Yes, we could say that is the way life is. But I don’t want to live my life with some of my days being dreary or ho-hum. I want HAPPINESS to fill each minute, second of my day. I want each day to be better than the last. In fact, I am now demanding that of myself.
I know this sounds woo-woo or, maybe, too out there for some. But I truly believe that we have the power to change what goes on in our mind. It is our mind and we do control it.
Now, I’m not going to tell you how many words go through our mind each day or how many thoughts we tell ourselves each day. Because I really don’t know. I’m only concerned with what goes on in my mind. And let me tell you, my mind is pretty active.
Conversations with myself are a constant. Some of it good, some of it just weird, and some of it, I need to downright change.
I believe we all have these same types of thoughts, maybe just a different variation. All of our conversations with ourselves are basically the same and most of it is negative stuff about ourselves. Conversations like “I’m too fat”, “I’m ugly”, “I’m not worth it” and that talk goes on and on around in our mind.
So I’ve taken my mind in hand. I am now very careful on what I’m thinking. I try to monitor it all the time. And when I think a negative thing, a thought or find myself having one of those negative conversations that I don’t want in my mind, I say to myself…”cancel, cancel.”
The reason for this is I want my mind to know that that thing, thought, or conversation can’t take root in there. And I don’t want any sucker roots either. I then replace it with a positive or the exact opposite thought depending on what I was thinking.
Has it been working? To be truthful, some days are easier than others. But I keep working on this. I continue to wake up each morning, asking myself. If I’m not feeling that happiness, then I repeat often to myself, “I’m happy.” And each and every morning as I do this, I find it is easier to feel that happiness and it starts to bubble up inside me.
During the days that I find myself slipping or things are going sideways, I go back to repeating the same phase over and over again. “I’m happy.” And that wondrous feeling of happiness fills me up.
I know that by doing this each and every day that one day I will wake up and I will have found that for a long time, I have felt and have lived in my own world of happiness.
Do you allow your mind to dictate your well-being? Or are you mindful of what goes through it each moment? And what do you do that keeps you in the right frame of mind?
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Thanks, Jimmy!