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How to Find Happiness:
Two Secrets
If You Wanna Be Happy

Part 1 of 2

Watching my mom made me want to try to figure out how to find happiness.

Even though she seemed perfect to me, I watched her struggle - fluctuating from joy and appreciation to often times frustration, worry and moodiness.

As I grew up I realized - that's just what most adults do: they fuss, worry and fret about things.

mood swings woman

My Quest

I observed the moods, and went on to have a great childhood. But the 'adult angst' I observed did affect me. It put me on this quest to answer these questions:

What causes a healthy, attractive, creative and lively young woman, like my mom and many other adults, to struggle with how to find happiness?
Why do some adults struggle with feeling good about themselves and life more than others? And what can be done about it?

And at work, why does one employee leave a perfectly good job to start a potentially more lucrative, but definitely more risky business adventure? And another employee willingly and very happily work 30 years for one company?
What accounts for the different drives and these different answers to the how to find happiness question?

How can the single mom who's working hard and barely making enough money to pay her bills, seem more joy-filled and happy than the rich, stay-at-home house wife?
What accounts for the differences? Money's not the key? Is it?

Happiest Ever - How?

As the new year rolled in, during my daily journal writing time I listed all of my accomplishments for the year.

It felt good. I like what I'd accomplished.

It dawned on me...last year was definitely my happiest year ever. More than ever before I felt:

joyful
at ease with myself
at ease with everyone else
in tune with my life purpose

Life IS getting better and better.

How did this happen? I'm glad that it's happened, but how? As I reflected on the year I zeroed-in on two 'secrets' that helped make it my best:

Two 'Secrets'
How to Find Happiness

soul's purpose

My How to Find Happiness Secret #1:
GET IN STEP WITH YOUR SOUL SELF

This year I did a better job of getting in step with my self.

Getting in step with your soul self means to:
spend time doing what most energizes you. More energy and feeling better is an indication that you are 'in track' with your purpose.

If you're living a life that is tune with what motivates and inspires you, your intrinsic motivations, life feels on purpose, fulfilling and happy.

On page 2, I provide more detail and action steps for getting in step with your soul self.

How to Find Happiness Secret #2:
CLOSE (MIND) THE GAPS.

I did a better job of minding the gaps in my own experience this year.

To Close (Mind)the Gaps Means to:
Get really good at, spending time, closing the gaps, between where you are and where you want to be on all subjects.

it is noticing whether your beliefs, actions, conversations and thought processes in every moment are taking you further away from or closer to your intentions.

On page 2, I provide more detail and action steps for getting in step with your soul self.

The bottom line in how to find happiness is: follow your soul's calling, do more of what energizes you and pay attention to the gaps, close them or you'll fall in!

Go to How to Find Happiness, Page 2, Now

On the next page you'll get Action Takeaways for each Secret, real life examples, a free soul's purpose quiz and an inspiring video with more actions steps.

"Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the Universe."
---Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow The Psychology of Optimal Experience