Happiness is a Choice!

“Enlightenment comes when we realize happiness is a choice, sadness is a choice, anger is a choice, love is a choice. Every state, emotion, and mood available to Man can be generated at will in our mind.”  ~ Brendon Burchard
 
Challenges happen to everyone in life.  If you truly look around, everyone has challenges in life – no one is immune.  We want to be happy and we have these thoughts about what will make us happy and these thoughts tend to be in the future.  We believe we will be happy when we make X amount of money,  when we marry Mr. or Mrs. Right, when we have children, when we retire, or any other number of other ‘when this happens’ scenarios.  But the truth is there is only now and the only time to be happy is now and you are the only person who can make yourself happy – because happiness comes from within and it is a choice. 
 
Brendon Burchard points outs that we have a choice how to react to all situations: we can choose happiness, anger, sadness or love.  The biggest gift I have learned in life is that things don’t happen to me – it is simpler than that – things happen.  I get to choose my response and I choose to learn from life’s challenges and be happy for the opportunity to learn.  Being angry and upset only breeds more negative energy and it makes the situation worse and causes suffering.  The sooner I let go and move on, the better off I am physically, mentally and spiritually. I choose to let go of blaming others and live from a place of peace and happiness. Each time I let go, I get a little lighter on the road to enlightenment.
 
Are you happy?
 
What can you do to bring more happiness into your life?