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When folks find out I wrote a book on happiness, they sometimes eye me with suspicious, as if they are waiting to see if I will skip away with glee or float on air rather than walk to my car. Seeking, attracting or maintaining happiness doesn’t mean you won’t encounter sadness, upset or sometimes downright disgust. As a matter of fact, I can get disgusted, sad, upset with the best of them. Some days I feel like a failure and can find fault with every aspect of my life.
Creating a life of happiness means gathering tools, strategies, and behaviors that enable you to cope with feelings, events and people that come along.
Of course your happiness depends on arranging your life to steer clear of trouble and being ready for adversity, just as you own an umbrella to be ready to stay dry during the rain. But just as there’s nothing you can do to keep the rain from falling, you can’t prevent some of the events that will enter your life. What you can do is develop the ways, attitude and behaviors that allow you to deal with whatever comes up, to bounce back and return to your own happiness set-point.
On a recent radio episode, “How to Go from Overwhelmed to Overjoyed” I discuss seven steps that help you move from situations that have the potential to overwhelm you to a state of being joyful and appreciative of your life. I encourage you to listen to this episode and share your take on what I shared. Listen to it here “How to Go From Overwhelmed to Overjoyed“
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