How To Be Happy

As a perpetually happy person myself sometimes people ask me how I got this way. I find it hard to answer this since I think I was born this way and I really do look at life as a daily exciting adventure. The glass is always half full to me.

But yesterday I read a great article by Alan Cohen, author of The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore in Balanced Living Magazine. He was looking at his friends and trying to decide what made them happy. Here are some of his observations:

For his friends who have been happily married for 35 years he said they "value joy more than resistance. They don't resist each other, their relationship, their children or their lives. They find ways daily to appreciate and celebrate their relationship."

Another friend allows himself to be exactly what he is and is passionate about what he chooses to do in life.

In a study of those who reached age 100, the key was that these people were all light-hearted. They didn't take life too seriously and flowed with the changes.

His advice:
Love it all. Drop resistance. Be true to yourself and your purpose. Lighten up. Say thank you to your loved ones.