Are You Searching For The Profound Secrets to a Happy Life? Test Yourself

By Wale Jolaosho

If you are searching for the true meaning of happiness in life then your search is over because you are about to discover the profound secret to happy life.

Below are six key questions you need to know the answer to, if you're interested in discovering the profound secrets to a happy life. I will give you those questions and the offer analysis on the correct answer.

1. Why Should I Love Myself To Be Happy:

(a) It is the bedrock to happy life

(b) You become selfish

(c) It is not important to you

The right answer is here is A. This is true for fact because there is no way you can be happy if you really do not love yourself. True happiness comes from knowing that you love yourself and that when you can extend the same love others. And this goes to support the saying that, "if you don't love yourself, why should anybody else?" Happiness and living a happy life is all about you loving yourself and by extension others form the bedrock to a happy life.

2. Does Friendship Influences Ones Being Happy:

(a) It has nothing to do with your being happy

(b) It makes you happy & create network of happy friends

(c) It makes you walk through a solo path

The right answer is B. It has been said that "you can make more friends in two weeks if you are interested in them than you can in two years if you want them to be interested in you" and doing this bring happiness to you. A renowned author, David Niven PhD, captures it in his book The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People and sublimely put it, "Friendship is one of life's main joys," Happiness is not a solo path, although it has a whole deal to do with your personal decision, but most times, the joys of life come from the memories of moment shared with those we hold dear to our hearts. In doing this, you end up finding yourself a group of folks with which you can maintain a relationship that allows and affords you the ability to be yourself to the utmost.

3. Why do I have to learn to take risk to be happy:

(a) Happiness which is inner joy comes with taking risk

(b) You don't need to take risk to be happy

(c) Happiness have no relationship with risk taking

The correct answer is A. The joy and satisfaction that comes with life accomplishment can be easily attributed to the leap of faith taking to accomplished you goals that is why it is said that the happiest people on earth are those who are not afraid to take a risk. Risking taking is associated with challenging the status quo, doing those things you ever dreamt of in the corner of your house that brings you joy, things like sky-diving; take that road trip that you've always dreamt about; speak to that high school crush of yours; apply for that high-end job that you've always been scared stiff about; do something out of place and you are sure to be happy for life.

4. Is having flexible plan a yardstick to a happy life:

(a) Having a plan is not enough

(b) Having a plan doesn't guarantee happiness

(c) Having a plan that is S.M.A.R.T and flexible bring happiness

The right answer here is C. It has been said time without numbers that "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail". To be happy you really have to plan for it, it just doesn't happen by chance. How satisfied you are with certain accomplished you strive to achieve base on your S.M.A.R.T. plans gives a long lasting happiness. Therefore, on the path to happy life, you must take one step at a time according to your plan and savour the moment as they come.

5. Does having great wealth make me happy in life?

(a) Great wealth do not make you happy

(b) Staying content and not wealth brings you happiness

(c) Wanting to have more lead to covetousness

The correct option is B. Here is why. Staying content or being contented is the best way to be happy. Happy people think less of what they don't have but stay content and happy with what they already have. Since we are in a materiality world where great possession of material things and luxury lifestyle seem to symbolizes happiness, but often time this is not so and this famous saying captured kit all, "the rich also cry" Often time we equate life to sport but easily forgetting that life will be life. It throws surprise jabs without warning; and it also throws surprise parties too! So, be content; aim high; chase your dreams; but BE CONTENT!

6. How can I be Happy?

(a) Happiness is by Choice

(b) Nobody can make you happy

(c) Life in itself can make you happy

The correct answer is A. A company by name "TOTAL" have a punch line in one of his infomercial on TV that say "total by choice" this can twisted to read, happiness by choice. To live a happy life you have to chose to be happy always and making this choice on daily basis reinforce your believe system and you begin to see yourself living that choice you made. Choosing to be happy entails more, as it has to do with continuous making of these conscious choices that stir you in the direction of happiness. As soon as that sink into your consciousness, you come alive to making choices that move you on the part of living happily and since happiness is a choice and been conscious of this great choices little by little is the pointer to living a happy life. BE HAPPY! STAY HAPPY! YOU DESERVE IT!

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Happiness Emanates From Within

By Berhane A Tedla

The term happiness cannot be contained or explained through words. No word is right word to explain the essence of happiness. Happiness is a spiritual element that is far beyond human explanation. It is eternal and human inheritance. The word happiness cannot make you happy like the word water cannot quench. For someone who is thirst must drink water and quench the throat. And the same thing is true with happiness. Happiness is not something verbal or to be induced from outside. No money, power, fame, or other worldly materials can make you happy; if they make you, it is temporarily, for happiness emanates from within.

Happiness has been the subject of debate and philosophical conflict among philosophers. It is a burning issue since human creation. The whole humanity is zealous to be happy and stay calm and peaceful. However, very few like the number of our fingers are happy; otherwise the rest of humanity is snuffed off into thick night and invariably grope. There is no night with a darkness that can stay for life time, for there is a lamp to lit, but there is human darkness that can never even be illuminated without human happiness. Happiness unveils the thick human darkness and lights the path of purpose. Nevertheless, happiness is byproduct or effect, not the cause by itself.

The very effort that we invariably exercise is to be happy and stay vibrant on the stage without fear and insecurity is the desire to experience ecstasy. Whatever we do is our attempt to stay happy. The motive of life is happiness and failure to accomplish is unhappiness. The motive is strong, the energy is enormous and the search is endless but the time is limited. As a consequence of this, humanity is in rashness of emergency. In the course of life, I have been with several people who sought happiness at high cost of their time and energy. Some would say it is such a waste and futile effort to break through the walls so as to experience happiness. Some admittedly said that no effort is good effort to achieve happiness. I pondered who is happy and can be happy, if efforts are worthless and anti happiness. I wondered 'why', however while time went by little by little I started to understand the secret. It is true that no effort is true effort to attain happiness. This tells me that happiness is unsearched and cannot be charted or put under certain formula. If it were, philosophers would have set a mathematical formula to find our happiness, and only mathematicians would be happy.

Philosophers died seeking happiness, not even happy one day. Efforts over efforts, but fruitless. Not only philosophers though their ideas are epidemic to humanity; even your life from morning to night is struggling wrongly to breath happiness. Sometimes you feel the insight of blessings and sometimes absolute boredom. However, this is byproduct of your actions-blessed and evil actions. Remember that you were not born evil; it is your action makes you evil. Just wonder about evils that prevail on the planet. All human evils are meant to achieve happiness, but wrongly. Very recently I have come to realize that the motive for murder, crime, theft, gossip, assassination, hatred, genocide and endless evil actions are all meant to be happy. This implies that how much humanity is ignorant about the path of happiness. As there is a path to evil, so shall there is a path to happiness, but it seems better said than done. It is easy to destroy a palace, but extremely difficult to build. The same thing is true with happiness. The path to evil is too easy, whereas the path to happiness is subtler and only few find it.

I have read enormous books about happiness in particular and life in general, but none of them coined it vividly. They beat around the bush and take the long way to explain the bright part of life; it is vicious circle. Some of them took me far away and dropped me nowhere, while some had taken me far away and brought me where I was, no change at all; only wastage of time and energy. Still other books had provided me a certain formula to put life into a box, but eventually I have understood that life is infinite; only turtle lives in a box and some fanatics.

The essence of happiness is not seeking, searching, philosophizing or mathematical formula. No seeking is certain and no formula is true. Happiness cannot be contained in such a way. If it were, we would all be happy and shining. Desperately, humanity has been seeking the source of happiness; however, still nothing achieved. The effort is colossal, the search is endless, the worries are sucking, but the hope is potential. In succinct manner, let me put it this way: the path to happiness is pathless and chartless. If you want to be happy, be yourself. To be yourself, discover yourself. To discover yourself, understand your nature. To understand your nature, understand the purpose of life. To understand the purpose of life, communicate to the unmoved mover. Nothing exists, only existence alone. Happiness is not a hot subject, but existence is. Don't drift away and consume your life. Mediate over beauty of existence, and eventually existence will consume and grant you happiness. Happiness does not descend or come to you because it is already within you. You are potentially happy. Its ingredient is available to you; only learn to how discover it.

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