The Secret to Happiness? Choose it.

How you can make every day the best day of your life

People often think of happiness as something that is difficult to attain, something that can only happen once all the conditions are “perfect”. As a result, many spend their entire lives waiting for happiness to find them, only for it to never show up.

What these people have failed to realize is that happiness is not something that finds them, happiness is something that must be intentionally worked toward every day. Happiness is not an independent variable — happiness is completely dependent on you.

If you want to have a good day, have a good day.

In order to live a life filled with joy, you must decide that external events cannot and will not determine whether you have a good day or not, because if you give the world control over your emotions, you will be left unhappy nine times out of ten.

This is why entering every day with intention is crucial to your happiness — the moment you open your eyes in the morning, sit up and declare that this is going to be the best day of your life.

After you have made your declaration, act on it!

As you go through each moment of your day, continually ask yourself how you would be acting and what decisions you would be making if this was the best day of your life.

You’ll find that you end up making drastically different decisions and breaking out of old habits as you go through your day pretending as if it was the best day of your life, releasing you from the prior limitations of your lifestyle.

It is truly incredible just how amazing your day can be when you decide that you are going to make it that way.

Side Effects of Your Self-Induced Happiness

Not only will your attitude benefit you by providing you bliss, but it will also benefit you by transforming your interactions with others.

Researchers from Harvard were able to determine that happiness is extremely contagious — happiness can spread as many as three degrees in social networks, meaning that your good mood may spread to friends of your friends’ friends.

That is nothing to take lightly — your attitude could possibly spread to hundreds, so make it a positive one.

Having a happy attitude will put the people around you in a better mood, increasing the quality and enjoyment of your interactions each day and taking your social life to another level.

Live a Life of Constant Bliss

As you can probably tell, happiness is a win-win for everyone involved, so what are you waiting for?

Go live the best day of your life, and repeat the process again and again.

Multiply your happiness.

Not only will you appreciate your new attitude, but everyone around you will appreciate it too.

“Life is like a mirror. Smile at it, and it smiles back at you.”