How To Be Happier – in Four Easy Lessons. | Psychology Today

How To Be Happier – in Four Easy Lessons. Psychology Today

Happiness
The Happiness Project
A chronicle of my attempts to test-drive every tip, principle and scientific study that promotes happiness.
by Gretchen Rubin

July 17, 2009, Happiness
How To Be Happier – in Four Easy Lessons.

Excerpts:

Each one of these truths sounds fairly obvious and straightforward, but each was the product of tremendous thought. Take the Second Splendid Truth – it’s hard to exaggerate the clarity I gained when I managed to identify it. Here they are:

First Splendid Truth To be happier, you have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

Second Splendid Truth One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy; One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

Third Splendid Truth The days are long, but the years are short. (click the link to see my one-minute movie)

Fourth Splendid Truth You’re not happy unless you think you’re happy. corollary: You’re happy if you think you’re happy.

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