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Part Two of “How to be Happy”.

What are the 10 traits of happy people? How do they do things differently? How do they view things differently? 

Bottom line? Happiness is a decision — you decide every day whether you’re going to smile or not. 

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And always remember the pen trick! (Go to 1:07 in the video at the bottom of this post for more information!)

Your decision to smile will actually help you be happier. 

But why? What is it about happy people? How do they think differently and what did they do? 

Number One: Connection

They have a strong connection with their social fabric of people that they know. 

Studies show that online friends are okay, but it’s those face-to-face interactions with real live human beings that matter. Not artificial intelligence BOTS. Real, face-to-face interactions. 

Happy people also stay connected with their families. I love the George Burns saying:

“Happiness is having a large, caring, close knit family that lives in another city.” 

Having that connection to your neighbors, your place of worship, and your personal friendships. They have been shown to act as a buffer to depression and creating those strong meaningful connections of people that help you not be depressed. 

The rates of depression and people who are depressed are increasing at a rapid rate. Matter of fact, the World Health Organization says by 2020, depression will be the second leading cause of death by suicide. 

SHOCKING!

The disconnection from family, the disconnection from community, the disconnection from those in your place of worship. That disconnection actually leads to a higher incidence of depression. Number one is the fact that people have in-person family, friends, a knit community that they can turn to. 

Number Two: Use Your Talents

They engage in activities that fit their strengths, their values, and their lifestyles. Using their God-given strengths and talents, they get out in the world and participate in society. 

For example. When you have a goal for physical health and you get out and exercise. Happy people do the same thing with their emotional goals — of how they want to think and behave. 

It’s engaging in activities that fit your strengths and your values.

Number Three: Gratitude

Gratitude. Having a grateful heart and a grateful mindset can help you cope with trauma and stress. It’s also good for your health! 

Focus on at least one thing a day to be grateful for because gratitude dissolves negative emotions. Did you know that a positive emotion and a negative emotion can’t exist at the same time in your brain? When you really feel and think about the things that you’re grateful for, it dissipates the negative emotions. They can’t be there at the same time.

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That’s also a character strength of gratitude. Studies have shown that those who practice gratitude (or who are just grateful people in general) have a higher correlation to life satisfaction. 

Movie Recommendation

Have you ever read the story of people in concentration camps during World War 2? Or Prisoners of War? The people who had a positive attitude survived. 

A deep, soul-searching movie is “The Ninth Day” (Der Neunte Tag).  Here’s the description:

From inside the hell of the Dachau concentration camp “Priest Block,” Father Henri Kremer clings to a fragile life and challenged faith. But Gestapo officer Gebhardt, a young and ruthless lapsed seminarian, arranges a nine day reprieve for the priest. If Fr. Kremer can persuade his staunchly anti-Nazi Bishop to capitulate to Nazi occupation, he’ll go free. But if he fails or tries to escape, death awaits. Torn between duty, faith, fear for his own life and for the lives of his loved ones, in just nine days Kremer must find a way to ease his conscience, protect his family, hold on to his faith and uphold his vows.

You can read more about it on IMDb.

It’s an extremely moving story, and (spoilers!) Fr. Kremer ends up going back to the concentration camp. But when he does, he’s now so full of love and peace and gratitude and joy that he starts ministering to everybody else there at the concentration camp. 

Being grateful — and having the habit of gratitude — also increases your self-esteem. When you’re grateful, your self-worth and your self-esteem rise. So practice gratitude. 

Number Four: Optimisim

Happy people have the habit of thinking optimistically. Do you find yourself “seeing red”? (Learn more about the color red here!)

Always trying to look for the best in any situation. 

Happy people get rid of pessimism — or rein in pessimism — because they focus their time and energy on things that they do have control over. 

What about the things that you have absolutely no control over? Well, why get all wrapped up in them if you can’t control it? 

First, convert it into a problem solving exercise as opposed to complaining. Second, move on. Don’t even waste time thinking about it. The road is bumpy at times. But the bumpiness ends eventually and we get on the smooth the road. So let’s just mentally move on from it because this too shall pass. Third, compartmentalize. Compartmentalize the bad things that you can’t do anything about. And just focusing on the things that you can do something good about. 

Number Five: Kindness

Random acts of kindness. 

Have you ever done that? Like buying a cup of coffee for somebody behind you in Starbucks. Holding the door for someone. Looking someone in the eye and smiling and saying hello. 

Research has shown a strong correlation between helping behavior and people’s health, longevity, and well-being. You feel better just because you made somebody smile and smiling releases endorphins for both of you. You’re both happier. What can you do today to a total stranger, knowing that you’ll never get anything back in return? That’s the true definition of “being good and doing good”. 

Number Six: Joy

Happy people understand that material wealth is not success and true happiness. It can help. It can make things a little bit more comfortable at times. But that shouldn’t be the be-all-and-end-all goal to accumulate a lot of money. There is a limited number of joyful things that “things” bring to us. 

At the end of the Great Depression, a study was done to measure people’s happiness scale. The Happiness Scale was right around 8.0 (on a scale of one to ten). 

The Happiness Scale of people in 2015 was 7.2. 

“Things” don’t make us happy. Actually, people who strive for money and strive for things to surround themselves with in the long run have a lower rate of happiness.

Number Seven: Strategies

Coping strategies. Similar to compartmentalizing and learning to change things into a problem-solving exercise as opposed to being overwhelmed.

There’s something called Post-Traumatic Growth, which is a positive personal change after a traumatic incident. There are five factors of growth after a challenging event. 

1. A renewed appreciation for life. If you’ve ever had a close brush with death, you have a stronger appreciation for life. 
2. Recognizing that there are new paths in your life. When something horrible happens, you re-evaluate. There are other options you can pursue. Different paths. 
3. Enhanced personal strength. Have you overcome something major? Has something horrible happened in your life, and you lived to tell the story? You are already a survivor! If you did it once you can do it again. There’s nothing that life can throw at you that you can’t handle
4. Improved relationships with others. 
5. Spiritual growth. 

Make sure you take a tragedy and turn it into a symphony! 

Number Eight: Growth

Happy people focus on their physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Happy people act like happy people because they’re working on their emotions. They’re trying to grow emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. They bring a level of optimism and happiness and engagement into their everyday activities. 

It’s like watching a child play with a toy. Or the wonder of seeing something for the first time, like the first time you saw the mountains. Or the first time you saw the ocean, or a beautiful sunset. That sense of awe and wonder and joy and happiness. Take that into everything that you do today and see how you feel differently at the end of the day!

Number Nine: Spirituality

Happy people cultivate their spirituality. 

There is a growing ever-growing body of scientific evidence that says spiritual people are happier people. They’re happier. They’re healthier. They recover faster after trauma. They recover faster after health problems. Having a strong spirituality and faith assists you in every area of your life. It helps you connect to something outside of yourself. To something bigger and understand that, “It Ain’t All About You. It Ain’t All About Me.” We’re part of a bigger network of people and spirituality. 

Number Ten: Goals

Happy people have direction. They have goals. If you don’t have a target or a goal to aim at, how are you to get there? 

Do you plan for vacations? Or do you say, “Hey, let’s hop in the car and go to Disney World, but we don’t have a map. And we don’t know where we are. We don’t know which way to turn and what road to turn on.” 

How are you ever going to get where you want to be if you don’t have a map and a plan to get there? 

Happy people have values that they care about, and outcomes that they know are worth working for. So having direction and having a goal is essential. 

They have that Emotional Intelligence — they’re aware of that and they’re working toward it. 

Which of these 10 habits and strategies do you currently use? Which ones do you want to work on this next month?

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This idea is a way to “shake up” your wardrobe and give you some different ideas of mixing and matching items of clothing in your closet.

If you’d rather watch a video of how to do this, check it out on my YouTube channel here.

Ready?

Here’s the basic form:

"Sudoku Capsule Wardrobe" is a way to “shake up” your closet and give you different ideas of how to mix and match items of clothing in your closet in a whole new way!
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Now, how to fill your Capsule Wardrobe Sudoku!

Here’s the key: If you’re a beginner, pick two neutral colors and one accent color. (Advanced Fashionistas will pick 2 accent colors and one neutral!)

For this example, I stuck with blue & white as neutrals, and blush pink for the accent color:

And this is how it mixes and matches.

Every row matches:

Every column matches:

You can even do the diagonals, because they match, too!

And the four corners:

ADVANCED FASHIONISTA: 2 accent colors (green & pink) and one neutral (black) for a Capsule Wardrobe Sudoku:

Beginner: 2 neutral colors (black & white) and one accent (blue):

What do you think? Will this help you try new things? Let me know!

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