I just took the" true happiness test " and my grade was A+. The test unearths puny areas that need improving as well as the strong areas which make a person happy.
About My Grade:
"You scored high in both recollected and experienced happiness. You're feeling competent, independent, and have good relations with mates รข€" all key factors to your happiness. Your positive disposition reflects your need and capability to prosper on a day-to-day basis. Continue to support your healthy self-image by making improvements to your house and passing time on activities that actually interest you." From bluezones
It left out the real reason nevertheless , which is God's presence in my life. I knew I used to be a pretty happy guy, but failed to know I might score that high. After I took the test, I commenced to attempt to appraise why I'm satisfied. I have some things in my life, as well as others, that could pull me down, but I have a tendency to focus on the great things, and I think the 7 tactics to improve your happiness now, mentioned below, are all necessary so as to be satisfied.
7 methods to boost your happiness beginning now These are based on my own experience; I'm hoping you find them helpful:
1. Improve your finances
2. Enhance your health
3. Improve relations
4. Do more things that you like
5. Go to new places and make some new friends
6. Get a pet
7. Develop your spiritual life
Improve your finances:
It is important to your happiness to have your financial affairs in order. Some buy stuff thinking they will make them content, and actually infrequently it takes away from their happiness. When you have to struggle to pay for everything you have acquired, and are continually living on the financial edge, it is tough to have much happiness.
If you are young especially, it is so vital to learn finances and make some sensible financial decisions. Here are some things that I suggest you begin to do now: Pay off your debts starting with the littlest. As soon as you pay off a bill, take the amount you are paying on it and pay off the next one until you are paid off. In the meanwhile, avoid the enticement to buy anything more.
The difference in how folks with money spend their money contrasted with people who don't is that folk with cash buy assets, while people who don't have money buy un-needed junk that commonly winds up in a garage sale.
Be smart in how you spend your cash; live below your means so as to save. Remember, it is not how much you earn but how well you manage what you earn. It is not a matter of reducing the standard of your life either, but a matter of better managing your purchasing and saving.
There are plenty of highpaid people who live from salary check to check. They haven't learned the way to manage money either. I read recently that a famous film star's home in Florida is in foreclosure; he was the top box office draw for years and made millions. He's not the sole celebrity who is in trouble financially; there are many others. So once more, it's not how much you earn as it is how you manage what you earn.
A widely known businessman online was speaking lately about his surprise when his mummy told him she was retiring with over one million bucks from her job as the church secretary. Church secretary does not pay that much but reputedly she knew the correct way to manage money.
Take time to evaluate your finances, and make some plans concerning how to get them under control and be certain to start to save for retirement unless you plan to work till you drop over dead.
Enhance your health:
It is tough to be happy if you are afflicted by poor health. People with poor health often suffer with a large amount of discomfort or restrictions. I was sitting on a park bench today at the beach on a beautiful warm day in Florida, when a person and his wife came along. They paused to inquire about my dog. We talked for a while and I noticed he had a respiring problem. Before long he took out a cigarette pack and lit up. He did not smoke the whole gasper; he fastidiously put it out and then replaced the remainder back into the package for later on. It never fails to amaze me how some intentionally destroy their well-being. I had two friends who had lung cancer and continued to smoke right up until they died. I have never smoked,. So I don't know what it is like, but I regularly wonder what it is about a cigarette that's more crucial than health or even life for a case of fact.
Habits that include health risks are not worth it. Your health is an important ingredient to happiness. Here's the thing: It is just as simple to maintain good health as it is to tear your fitness down with bad habits, unhealthy eating and absence of exercise. You may have good health by changing a couple of things about your way of life and by doing a little every day to maintain it. It's true that we don't have absolute control over our health, but we do have a lot of control over it.
Improve relationships:
The first sentence above of the evaluation of my happiness test says: "You scored high in both recollected and experienced happiness. You feel competent, independent, and have good relations with friends "all key considerations to your happiness."
If there's one thing in life that is more crucial than all of the rest as far as happiness, it'd be relationships. It is inconsequential what you have, if you've no one to enjoy life with, it is insignificant. Some people mess off all of their mates and wind up alone, disgruntle and sad. Relations like pretty much anything else need upkeep and care to grow and to survive. The best rule when it comes to improving relationships is the golden rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Do more things that you enjoy:
I could add to the above," and less of the things you don't enjoy ." For years I was in a situation that needed regular conferences. If those meeting had been required and had purpose, it would be different but for the main part they were never; so I developed a hatred concerning conferences and till this day I avoid them; I hate them. I am at the point today where I'll choose the things I do , and so I do very few things that I just don't enjoy.
One of the great things about having a powerful money state is the power to do more of the things you enjoy in life. I enjoy travel, so I've traveled in 49 states and several other nations. You can not do this if you do not get on top of your money affairs when you're young.
Go to new places and meet new people:
One of the things I am hoping to do in late 2012 is to take a trip to China for a year and teach English in a school. I would be teaching about 400 Chinese scholars. While this isn't yet for certain, I am hoping it works out. That to me is something completely different from anything I've done before, and the idea of meeting that many new, young people and in another country, is so much fun.
But it doesn't need to be something as extreme as that; it can be going to new places in your own community and meeting new people and making new buddies.
Get a pet:
Excuse me for using so many personal examples in this piece but it is based on my experiences of things that have added happiness to my life, so I imagine in that case it's alright.
Having a pet is so necessary to me. I have owned pets all though my life, both dogs and cats, though I like dogs. All my pets have been outside pets until the present one. I currently have a West Highland Terrier, known as "Westy", who is an insider dog.
How I came about him is a depressing tale. My other half always wanted a Westy, but since I never liked to have an insider dog, we never got one, that is until she got sick with cancer and then I agreed to get one. She purchased him when he was two months old and he was so tiny that she often carried him in a huge purse with just his head sticking out.
The sad part is that she died 11 months after getting the dog. He was completely her dog until she died and then he turned to me and has been at my side for over six years now. He has been such a help to me during the mourning period, and to this day he's cheerful just being where I am. I might hate worst than anything to be without him; he adds so much happiness to my life. I travel in a motor home, and together he and I've been in 37 states. It is a undisputed fact that folk with dogs are merrier and also live for longer.
Develop your spiritual life:
More than anything else in my life, the spiritual connection I have had with God has given me happiness, happiness and purpose. Even thru the tricky times of my life, and perhaps especially during those times, God's presence has brought me through. I can't imagine going thru life alone without God.
I can remember years ago reading a poem which has stuck with me. I found it on the Web. The original author isn't known. This copy is offered by Margaret Fishback Powers.
I Had a Dream
One night I had a dream
I was taking a walk along the beach with my Lord.
. Across the sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene I noticed 2 sets
of footprints in the sand,
one belonging to me
and the other to my Lord.
When the last scene of my life shot before me
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
There had been only one set of footprints.
I spotted that this was at the lowest
and saddest times in my life.
This always worried me
and I was critical of the Lord
about my quandary.
"Lord, you told me when I decided to follow You,
You would walk and talk with me all the way.
But I'm aware that in the most troublesome
times of my life there is just one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You most,
you leave me."
He murmured, "My valuable, dear kid,
I love you and will never leave you
never, ever during your times of trial and testings.
When you saw just one set of footprints
It was then that I carried you."
Conclusion:
It's a good thing to go thru life with a measure of happiness, but happiness is not the most vital thing. My life goal isn't focused wholly on maintaining a state of happiness but rather on satisfying purpose. I know what my gifts are and I know what my purpose is, so I'm concerned in that. Happiness seems to be kind of an after effect. One thing I am sure of, and that is my happiness is more reliant upon my spiritual relationship with God than any other thing. When your relationship with God comes first, it is way easier to experience a continual state of happiness.
About My Grade:
"You scored high in both recollected and experienced happiness. You're feeling competent, independent, and have good relations with mates รข€" all key factors to your happiness. Your positive disposition reflects your need and capability to prosper on a day-to-day basis. Continue to support your healthy self-image by making improvements to your house and passing time on activities that actually interest you." From bluezones
It left out the real reason nevertheless , which is God's presence in my life. I knew I used to be a pretty happy guy, but failed to know I might score that high. After I took the test, I commenced to attempt to appraise why I'm satisfied. I have some things in my life, as well as others, that could pull me down, but I have a tendency to focus on the great things, and I think the 7 tactics to improve your happiness now, mentioned below, are all necessary so as to be satisfied.
7 methods to boost your happiness beginning now These are based on my own experience; I'm hoping you find them helpful:
1. Improve your finances
2. Enhance your health
3. Improve relations
4. Do more things that you like
5. Go to new places and make some new friends
6. Get a pet
7. Develop your spiritual life
Improve your finances:
It is important to your happiness to have your financial affairs in order. Some buy stuff thinking they will make them content, and actually infrequently it takes away from their happiness. When you have to struggle to pay for everything you have acquired, and are continually living on the financial edge, it is tough to have much happiness.
If you are young especially, it is so vital to learn finances and make some sensible financial decisions. Here are some things that I suggest you begin to do now: Pay off your debts starting with the littlest. As soon as you pay off a bill, take the amount you are paying on it and pay off the next one until you are paid off. In the meanwhile, avoid the enticement to buy anything more.
The difference in how folks with money spend their money contrasted with people who don't is that folk with cash buy assets, while people who don't have money buy un-needed junk that commonly winds up in a garage sale.
Be smart in how you spend your cash; live below your means so as to save. Remember, it is not how much you earn but how well you manage what you earn. It is not a matter of reducing the standard of your life either, but a matter of better managing your purchasing and saving.
There are plenty of highpaid people who live from salary check to check. They haven't learned the way to manage money either. I read recently that a famous film star's home in Florida is in foreclosure; he was the top box office draw for years and made millions. He's not the sole celebrity who is in trouble financially; there are many others. So once more, it's not how much you earn as it is how you manage what you earn.
A widely known businessman online was speaking lately about his surprise when his mummy told him she was retiring with over one million bucks from her job as the church secretary. Church secretary does not pay that much but reputedly she knew the correct way to manage money.
Take time to evaluate your finances, and make some plans concerning how to get them under control and be certain to start to save for retirement unless you plan to work till you drop over dead.
Enhance your health:
It is tough to be happy if you are afflicted by poor health. People with poor health often suffer with a large amount of discomfort or restrictions. I was sitting on a park bench today at the beach on a beautiful warm day in Florida, when a person and his wife came along. They paused to inquire about my dog. We talked for a while and I noticed he had a respiring problem. Before long he took out a cigarette pack and lit up. He did not smoke the whole gasper; he fastidiously put it out and then replaced the remainder back into the package for later on. It never fails to amaze me how some intentionally destroy their well-being. I had two friends who had lung cancer and continued to smoke right up until they died. I have never smoked,. So I don't know what it is like, but I regularly wonder what it is about a cigarette that's more crucial than health or even life for a case of fact.
Habits that include health risks are not worth it. Your health is an important ingredient to happiness. Here's the thing: It is just as simple to maintain good health as it is to tear your fitness down with bad habits, unhealthy eating and absence of exercise. You may have good health by changing a couple of things about your way of life and by doing a little every day to maintain it. It's true that we don't have absolute control over our health, but we do have a lot of control over it.
Improve relationships:
The first sentence above of the evaluation of my happiness test says: "You scored high in both recollected and experienced happiness. You feel competent, independent, and have good relations with friends "all key considerations to your happiness."
If there's one thing in life that is more crucial than all of the rest as far as happiness, it'd be relationships. It is inconsequential what you have, if you've no one to enjoy life with, it is insignificant. Some people mess off all of their mates and wind up alone, disgruntle and sad. Relations like pretty much anything else need upkeep and care to grow and to survive. The best rule when it comes to improving relationships is the golden rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Do more things that you enjoy:
I could add to the above," and less of the things you don't enjoy ." For years I was in a situation that needed regular conferences. If those meeting had been required and had purpose, it would be different but for the main part they were never; so I developed a hatred concerning conferences and till this day I avoid them; I hate them. I am at the point today where I'll choose the things I do , and so I do very few things that I just don't enjoy.
One of the great things about having a powerful money state is the power to do more of the things you enjoy in life. I enjoy travel, so I've traveled in 49 states and several other nations. You can not do this if you do not get on top of your money affairs when you're young.
Go to new places and meet new people:
One of the things I am hoping to do in late 2012 is to take a trip to China for a year and teach English in a school. I would be teaching about 400 Chinese scholars. While this isn't yet for certain, I am hoping it works out. That to me is something completely different from anything I've done before, and the idea of meeting that many new, young people and in another country, is so much fun.
But it doesn't need to be something as extreme as that; it can be going to new places in your own community and meeting new people and making new buddies.
Get a pet:
Excuse me for using so many personal examples in this piece but it is based on my experiences of things that have added happiness to my life, so I imagine in that case it's alright.
Having a pet is so necessary to me. I have owned pets all though my life, both dogs and cats, though I like dogs. All my pets have been outside pets until the present one. I currently have a West Highland Terrier, known as "Westy", who is an insider dog.
How I came about him is a depressing tale. My other half always wanted a Westy, but since I never liked to have an insider dog, we never got one, that is until she got sick with cancer and then I agreed to get one. She purchased him when he was two months old and he was so tiny that she often carried him in a huge purse with just his head sticking out.
The sad part is that she died 11 months after getting the dog. He was completely her dog until she died and then he turned to me and has been at my side for over six years now. He has been such a help to me during the mourning period, and to this day he's cheerful just being where I am. I might hate worst than anything to be without him; he adds so much happiness to my life. I travel in a motor home, and together he and I've been in 37 states. It is a undisputed fact that folk with dogs are merrier and also live for longer.
Develop your spiritual life:
More than anything else in my life, the spiritual connection I have had with God has given me happiness, happiness and purpose. Even thru the tricky times of my life, and perhaps especially during those times, God's presence has brought me through. I can't imagine going thru life alone without God.
I can remember years ago reading a poem which has stuck with me. I found it on the Web. The original author isn't known. This copy is offered by Margaret Fishback Powers.
I Had a Dream
One night I had a dream
I was taking a walk along the beach with my Lord.
. Across the sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene I noticed 2 sets
of footprints in the sand,
one belonging to me
and the other to my Lord.
When the last scene of my life shot before me
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
There had been only one set of footprints.
I spotted that this was at the lowest
and saddest times in my life.
This always worried me
and I was critical of the Lord
about my quandary.
"Lord, you told me when I decided to follow You,
You would walk and talk with me all the way.
But I'm aware that in the most troublesome
times of my life there is just one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You most,
you leave me."
He murmured, "My valuable, dear kid,
I love you and will never leave you
never, ever during your times of trial and testings.
When you saw just one set of footprints
It was then that I carried you."
Conclusion:
It's a good thing to go thru life with a measure of happiness, but happiness is not the most vital thing. My life goal isn't focused wholly on maintaining a state of happiness but rather on satisfying purpose. I know what my gifts are and I know what my purpose is, so I'm concerned in that. Happiness seems to be kind of an after effect. One thing I am sure of, and that is my happiness is more reliant upon my spiritual relationship with God than any other thing. When your relationship with God comes first, it is way easier to experience a continual state of happiness.
About the Author:
Jimmie Burroughs is an inspirational speaker and author who has been involved in teaching Christian Private Development for more than 30 years. He is a dedicated believer in Jesus Christ and considers helping others his calling in life. His site contains over 600 articles on preparing yourself for success thru personal development and the things that go with personal development.
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