This morning I read an interesting comment in Positive Inspiring Quotes:
The formula for happiness is simple. We don't need material wealth, a perfect job, or an exceptional relationship. In fact, it's possible to know happiness with no job, very little money, and no significant other. Happiness is a by-product of a healthy attitude. And a healthy attitude is one that takes the normal turmoil of life. I am in charge of my attitude today. Happiness is a choice I can make regardless of what the people around me are doing."
A Woman's Spirit by Karen Casey
Steve then commented: "Attitudes and actions generate one another, like chickens and eggs."
That's it - in an eggshell! It's a cycle of happiness, a state of mind that is replenished on a never-ending basis from our mindset - attitudes, then actions. It isn't a destination we reach after some milestone of having 2.2 children, retiring in the Hamptons, or losing 25 pounds. Happiness is indeed a by-product of a healthy attitude and sincere gratitude. It's a state of mind. If you're teetering between feeling complete joy always or feeling like you have mostly good days, but damn it, something always throws a wrench into your bliss.... Then it's high time to refocus on the cycle of happiness. That cycle can be interrupted by our mind chatter, not external situations; so happiness is found within, but can also be sabotaged from within. It's up to us to keep it in chick, I mean check!
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