Happiness In Hard Times

Greater Happiness And Less Pain In Hard Times

Here are key Happiness Habits for Hard Times:

• Revolt and Rebel against letting bad things get you down.
• Wrap The Pain In Love - Give yourself big, warm, comforting, loving hugs whenever you need them.
• Turn Negative Judgments into Positive Action Items that help you Triumph and Be Happy.
• Get Moving: Action, Activity and Achievement Are Helpful and Healing - Isolation and Inactivity are Dangerous:  Don't Isolate or Insulate yourself from People, Activities and Opportunities that can Help you.
• Turn Distress and Despair into Defiant, Determined Drives to Triumph and Be Happy.
• Use Anger to your Advantage - Channel Anger toward Positive, Productive Purposes.

More Specific, Powerful Steps to Triumph Over Tough Times with greater happiness and less pain are shown below. Each link has a full page Detailed Description in pdf describing how to adopt and apply each strategy.

Will you still be be Hurt and Unhappy?  Yes, but your Pain will be Less and the Pain Won't Last as Long.  You will also be a more powerful source of strength, inspiration and guidance to the people around you. 

Each strategy comes from our interviews and studies of habitually happy, spiritually successful people from all different walks of life and personal situations.

Many of the people we studied cheerfully conquered challenges not unlike what many of us face today. They refused to let their difficulties get them down.

Each strategy is time tested, powerful and proven effective.  We use them ourselves to stay balanced, focused and happy despite extraordinary difficulties. They offer amazing relief and surprising happiness.

What do you have to loose, why not try them?

To begin, print and explore the Happiness In Hard Times concept card. It's the same card we give away at our events and appearances.

Expanded, Specific Strategies in printable pdf format are shown below. Print them for yourself or to share with people who need attractive alternatives and powerful perspectives for dealing with difficult times.

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To be happier right now, resolve to Avoid The Fault Finding Feel Goods and Avoid All UnNecessary, Non- Productive Negativity.  Don't Beat Yourself Up over problems and difficulties.

In Hard Times it is especially important to Love Expansively and Extensively.  Decide to SEA - Savor, Enjoy & Appreciate Good Things, Try To Have A Good Time All Of The Time, Do YOUR Best, and continually Try To Be YOUR Best All Of The Time.

Channel Anger or Anguish About Errors and Mistakes Toward Fixing Problems, Identifying, Practicing and Strengthening Skills that will Help you to Triumph and Be Happy in the Future.

Explore HappinessHabit.com and HappinessBlog.com for more ideas about how to be happy and spiritually successful in tough times and in difficult situations.

Wishing you great happiness,

Michele Moore and the
Happiness Habit Team
   

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Happiness In Hard Times - Specific Strategies

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Here are links to attractive, printable descriptions of the Happiness In Hard Times  concept card in pdf format. BE PATIENT - they are large files ~400 kb. Skeptics see Really?

Wrap The Pain In Love - Don't deny or dismiss the emotional pain that comes from major life losses and devastating changes. Wrap the pain in love. Give yourself warm, comforting hugs. When you feel the pain, comfort yourself and wrap the pain in love. 

Action, Activity & Achievement Are Healing - Address high priority tasks in small, specific steps. Try to be at YOUR Best all of the time. Make lists, check off and celebrate completed tasks. Achievement is encouraging and empowering. Happiness Is Healing.

Revolt & Rebel - Against situations and forces that distress or depress your spirit. Don’t give them control of your thoughts, actions or feelings. Don’t help them hurt you.

Explore, Enjoy New Experiences - Crises and changed circumstances offer new joys, new opportunities, new benefits. Acquire new skills, strengthen existing capabilities, expand your definitions of happiness and success in new or changed environments.

Choose Your Mood & Attitude - Picture yourself happy, successful and confident. Consciously connect with those feelings, project them and they become genuinely yours.

Turn Negative Judgments Into Positive Action Items - Negative judgments fuel all fear, worry, anxiety and despair. Ask,“Can this negative judgment help me in some way?” If YES, turn the negative judgment into positive action items. If NO, discard it. Focus your time, energy and attention on activities that build happiness and spiritual success.

Letting Go Does NOT Mean Giving Up - It means achieving goals in different ways. Find new sources of happiness, joy and success in new or changed circumstances.

Misery Is Meant To Make Us Move- Misery signals something has changed, something needs to change, or both. Make changes to stop the misery. You may need to change what you are doing, how you are thinking, what you are feeling or change all three.

Turn Distress & Despair Into A Determined Desire To Triumph - Redirect misery into a defiant desire to triumph over difficulties, enjoy life, prosper and be happy.

Decide What You're Going To Do, Find Ways To Enjoy It - Enthusiasm, energy and determination to complete tasks well are just as important as developing good plans.

Use Anger To Your Advantage - Channel anger toward positive, constructive purposes. Use anger to help you rebound, triumph over difficulties and be happy.

Be Kind, Honest, Have Integrity, Live By Good Values - Living by good values helps you to feel good. No matter how things turn out, you know you did YOUR Best.

Love Expansively - Love propels happiness. Loving is something we can decide to do. To be happy, love what you do, love the people around you, love your work, love yourself.

Enjoying Happiness In Hard Times - How to use Happiness In Hard Times strategies to bring greater happiness into your life right now.  Steps to make your life more enjoyable immediately.  SPECIAL ADDED SECTION.

Facts & Laws of Happiness - The Three Laws of Happiness and Three Fundamental Facts that are the foundation of the Happiness Habit.

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Triumph Over Tough Times

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Key Happiness Habits for Hard Times:

When You Feel Emotional Pain, Wrap It In Love - Don't deny or dismiss the deep pain that comes from death, destruction, major life losses and disappointments. When you feel emotional pain, wrap it in love. Give yourself big, warm, comforting hugs. When you feel pain, wrap it in love.

Choose Your Mood And Attitude – See yourself smiling, happy and confident in your mind's eye. Consciously connect with those warm, powerful, positive feelings and continually project them, they will become genuinely yours.

Revolt and Rebel – Against situations and forces that try to drag you down, depress your spirits or that threaten to hurt, humiliate or harass you. Don't give them control of your thoughts, actions or feelings. Decide how you want to think, feel and act, choose your mood and attitude. Chart your own course.

Turn Negative Judgments Into Positive Action Items – Negative judgments power all fear, worry, anxiety and distress. Ask, “Can this negative judgment help me in some way? Can I change it?” If Yes, turn negative judgments into positive action items. If not, discard them and focus time, energy and attention where it can build happiness and success. Don't let negative judgments make you miserable for no reason.

Avoid The Fault Finding Feel Goods - Avoid all those terribly tempting tendencies to judge, criticize, complain and blame. Don't elevate yourself by focusing on what's wrong. Criticism is very counterproductive, it leaves people deflated and confused about what to do. Focus on positive objectives, radiating good cheer, spiritual success and achieving positive long term goals.

Focus On What You Want To Achieve – Clear goals help define the steps to attain them. Describing what you don't want, what's bad or what's wrong does not identify or communicate strategies that are good, right or successful. Vivid visions of happiness and success help you to attain them.

Decide What You're Going To Do, Find Ways To Enjoy It - Fuel Your Life And Your Work With Fun - Enthusiasm, energy and determination to complete tasks well are just as important to success as developing good plans. Creatively reinvent difficult, dreary or distasteful jobs to make them fun, rewarding, enjoyable. Turn tasks into games, involve others, tie work to meaningful goals, chart progress and celebrate success.

Action, Activity And Achievement Are Healing – Plan a series of small, clear, specific action steps and consciously celebrate successful completion of each step. Make lists, checking off completed tasks is very satisfying and encouraging. Happiness is healing.

Misery Is Meant to Make Us Move – Misery signals that something is changing or that something needs to change. We need to change to end the misery. We may need to change what we are doing, change how we think, change how we feel or change all three.

Turn Distress and Despair Into A Focused, Determined Drive To Succeed – Redirect distress and despair into a determined drive to triumph over difficulties. Don't let difficulties get you down, define who you are or determine your direction. Focus on positive long term goals and what you really want to achieve in the future.

Use Anger To Your Advantage – Channel anger toward positive, constructive purposes. Use anger to help you to succeed, rebound, overcome difficulties and be happy.

Explore, Discover, Enjoy New Experiences – Changed circumstances often offer new opportunities and benefits. Explore, discover and enjoy them. Acquire new skills, strengthen existing capabilities, expand your definitions of happiness and success in new or changed environments. Whatever we cling to controls us, letting go can be liberating.

Letting Go Does NOT Mean Giving Up, It Means Achieving Goals In Different Ways - Find new ways to enjoy happiness and success in new or changed environments. Pursue long terms goals in new or different ways.

Be YOUR Best Self, Live By The Highest And Best Values - When you've done your best your conscience is clear. You can let go of results knowing that you could have done no more. Continually trying to do YOUR best is energizing, elevating and your best keeps getting better.

Love Expansively and Extensively - The happiest people are the most loving people. To be happy, love what you do, love the people around you, love your work and love yourself.

Happiness can be very hard to find during tough times. It's important to persevere and make happiness appear even under the most difficult circumstances. We perform our best, feel our best and achieve our best when we are Up, confident, energized and happy.

Happiness is Healing.

Happiness fuels confidence, creativity and caring. Happiness is a key to belief in future success. We must believe we can be successful in order to put forth our best efforts to succeed.

Happiness Habit interviewed and studied habitually happy people from all walks of life and life situations. We discovered key skills and strategies happy people use to bring happiness and spiritual success to their lives during difficult times. We call these qualities Happiness Habits.

If You Decide To Adopt The Values, Beliefs, Ideals, Habits And Boundaries Characteristic Of Happy People, You Too Can Be Happy Or Happier Despite What Is Happening To You And Around You.

Do you want to add greater happiness to your life? Bring a Happiness In Hard Times™ program to your organization - Contact Happiness Habit for details.

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