Happy People...What makes them Tick?

 

I've been looking around me lately and realize there are truly not too many really happy people.  I guess to understand Happy Folks, you have to understand Unhappy Ones.  Years ago, I remember hearing a woman describe a study of happy people.  The study determined that the happiest people in the world are those with a cause outside of themselves.  What does that mean, a cause outside of themselves?

Well, simply put, it means that you are dedicated to something, anything outside of your own self thinking.  To fully understand this, take a look at some unhappy people you know.  What is their focus?  In my estimation, their focus is almost always themselves, their health, their love life, their weight, their hair or lack thereof....etc.  Unhappy people are self absorbed with anything to do about....you guessed it....themselves.  We all know these people; sometimes, we are even these people.  Whining, complaining, blaming, being persecuted by, you name it, they have it.

Happy people on the other hand are usually too busy to consider whining or complaining because they are dedicated to something or someone else.  Say for example, working with various charities, or feeding kids breakfast, or reading to the blind or even emersing yourself in a great book.  For a moment, for a lifetime, you are happy because the focus of your existance is not selfish...it is self-less, a very noble and HAPPY way to be.

I've been looking around me lately and realize there are truly not too many really happy people.  I guess to understand Happy Folks, you have to understand Unhappy Ones.  Years ago, I remember hearing a woman describe a study of happy people.  The study determined that the happiest people in the world are those with a cause outside of themselves.  What does that mean, a cause outside of themselves?

Well, simply put, it means that you are dedicated to something, anything outside of your own self thinking.  To fully understand this, take a look at some unhappy people you know.  What is their focus?  In my estimation, their focus is almost always themselves, their health, their love life, their weight, their hair or lack thereof....etc.  Unhappy people are self absorbed with anything to do about....you guessed it....themselves.  We all know these people; sometimes, we are even these people.  Whining, complaining, blaming, being persecuted by, you name it, they have it.

Happy people on the other hand are usually too busy to consider whining or complaining because they are dedicated to something or someone else.  Say for example, working with various charities, or feeding kids breakfast, or reading to the blind or even emersing yourself in a great book.  For a moment, for a lifetime, you are happy because the focus of your existance is not selfish...it is self-less, a very noble and HAPPY way to be.