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things will make us happy. I’ve
had washboard abs (past tense)
and I’ve had some pretty phenomenal sex. Neither one made
me a better person. Neither one
completed me or made my life
more fulfilling.
We chase this idea of “I will be
happy when... “
I will be happy when I have a
new car. I will be happy when
I get married. I will be happy
when I get a better job. I will be
happy when I lose five pounds.
What if instead we choose to be
happy — right now?
If you can read this, your life is
pretty awesome.
Setting aside our first-world
problems and pettiness, if you
are online reading this, you have
both electricity and WiFi or access to them. Odds are you are
in a shelter of some sort, or on a
smartphone (and then kudos to
you for reading this on the go).
Life might bump and bruise us,
it may not always go the way we
plan and I know I get frustrated
with mine, but here’s the thing:
You are alive.
Because you are alive, everything is possible. So about those
eight tips...
KATE
BARTOLOTTA
HUFFINGTON
10.06.13
1. STOP BELIEVING YOUR BULLSHIT.
All that stuff you tell yourself
about how you are a commitment
phobe or a coward or lazy or not
creative or unlucky? Stop it. It’s
bullshit, and deep down you know
it. We are all insecure 14 year olds
at heart. We’re all scared. We
all have dreams inside of us that
we’ve tucked away because somewhere along the line we tacked
on those ideas about who we are
I’ve had washboard
abs (past tense) and I’ve had
some pretty phenomenal
sex. Neither one made me
a better person.”
that buried that essential brilliant, childlike sense of wonder.
The more we stick to these scripts
about who we are, the longer we
live a fraction of the life we could
be living. Let it go. Be who you are
beneath the bullshit.
2. BE HAPPY NOW.
Not because The Secret says so.
Not because of some shiny happy
Oprah crap. But because we can
choose to appreciate what is in
our lives instead of being angry