At the end of the day, Happiness is a choice!!!!!

 It's been a long day.  Challenge after challenge.  Trial after trial.  Roadblock on top of roadblock. Sadness piled onto more sadness.  Failure, stress, fear, anxiety, and loss, where does it all end?  Does any of this sound familiar ?  If you are like the average person each of us has to deal with various issues every single day.  The key to any challenge, to any event, is to choose how you see it, how you navigate it, and ultimately how you embrace it.  Embracing all things with happiness is a choice, but it is a choice that best suits you, and in the end will ultimately change the way you see anything going on in your life. 

What I want to do today is challenge you to see things differently, and adopting a new view of things.  Happiness is a choice.  No matter what may be going on in one's life, choosing happiness, no matter how difficult it might be, is really the only option you have if you are going to overcome the total dismay of the day.  Many have heard me say this before, but in any situation, no matter the difficulty, one can find happiness in as much as a lesson has been learned.  Well, hopefully learned.  If one does not pick up on the lesson at hand, then they will ultimately have to go round Robinhood's Barn another time until such time as the lesson is learned.  Often the most difficult situations in life bring the greatest discernment.  Discovering that you have the strength, the stamina, the will to get through the struggles of life is a huge testament to your understanding of your significance.  One would think that when they know they are unstoppable that somehow happiness would be flowing through every cell of their body.  

If I were to tell you that you have just purchased the winning lottery ticket worth millions, and that if your numbers did not come up I would personally give you the money, would that make you happy?  Now it's not about the money, what it's about is knowing your worth, knowing your truth, knowing your abilities as a creative being.  This in and of itself should create so much happiness inside of you that it is virtually unstoppable.  The only person that has the power to stop your happiness is you.  Certainly people may come your way throughout the day who are intent on screwing around with you, who will try to ruin your day, or simply just play with your mind.  At the end of the day you have the choice as to how you are going to react.  Are you going to retreat into nothingness when trials come, or will you stand tall, stand strong, laugh at what is in front of you, and choose happiness?  When that idiot boss once again decides to belittle you and others around do you simply put a boot up his/her's backside, or do you silently reach for the happiness that resides in you, realizing that you can't fix stupid?

Happiness once again is a choice.  My dogs bring me happiness, and when I'm having a difficult time I simply sit down and snuggle for a bit, this is always a huge dose of happiness for me.  You have to discover those things that bring you happiness and immerse yourself in it any time you find yourself in need of a little pick me up.  We face many challenges, but each challenge is an opportunity to find the happiness in it.  How one finds happiness, how one walks in happiness is entirely up to you.  That being said, if one cannot find happiness what do you think the alternative is?  No one is perfect and even the strongest person on the planet is going to have those times when being happy is nearly impossible, but let me tell you that finding happiness, walking in happiness, embracing happiness is anything but impossible.  

When someone comes to an understanding of their own significance, their perfection of design, their reason for being here, then walking in happiness becomes the norm, and not just something we hope for.  I'm here to tell you that there is nothing more important than understanding, accepting, and ultimately walking in your purpose.  Those things that you are passionate about, that bring you joy, peace, and ultimately happiness, are there to move you to your destiny.  When you fully embrace the purpose of you, then happiness will be a constant.  When you are able to embrace the real you, the unique you, the beautiful you, then walking in happiness is certain.  When one has confidence, one will experience happiness.  When we succeed at something we are generally happy about it.  When we fail we often walk in sadness, we experience frustration, when in actuality we should be happy.  Now someone is going to ask why should we be happy with failure.  I didn't say to be happy in failure, what I mean is we should be happy that we attempted something.  Certainly we may have come up a little short of the goal, but weren't you brave enough to enter into this activity in the first place.  If you are in a sporting event and come in second place, or loose the game, can't you find happiness in the fact that you gave it your best?  Once again how you see things is just as important as how you experience things.

Life's challenges are all there to bring you to a point of walking in, understanding, and believing that happiness should be a constant in your life.  A life void of happiness, and sadly there are many who live in this state constantly, but a life void of happiness is torture.  A life empty of happiness is a constant state of upheaval, a struggle, a "God this sucks" kind of moment.  No one should want to live this way and sadly there are many who are caught in this vicious cycle of things.  Happiness is something you must accept.  I can offer you happiness but if you are not ready to accept it, does it really matter if I give it to you or someone else?  I choose to live my life in happiness, and if struggles come, as they will, I still choose to live in happiness.  Why? Well pretty simple to answer, the alternative to happiness kind of sucks.  

At the end of the day, the choice is yours to make.  I can encourage, others can encourage, but you have to make the choice.  Find those things that bring you happiness, and keep them close.  We all have things we love, and I suspect that those things you love bring you a certain level of happiness.  If you know something makes you happy, latch on to it and never let go.  On the other hand, if there is something that is draining you happiness, then kick that thing to the curb, turn around and walk away from it.  If something is not serving you why in the world would you want to hang on to it? 

We are about to see a major shift in things, and you are going to experience happiness like never before.  The smile on your face will not disappear,  the love in your heart will grown, and your ability to touch a life, change a life, will be ever present.  Prepare now because things are about to get funner and funner.  I leave you with love, light, peace, joy, and of course happiness that will expand well above what you may have ever experienced before.