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“Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy, But life salutes you when you make others happy.”  - Charlie Chaplin

Making happiness happen for others comes from our awakening, growth and understanding that every single life is designed to birth other lives. A life of happiness is designed to birth other lives of happiness. A life of success and prosperity is designed to birth other lives of success and prosperity.

If we haven’t got there yet, we must strive continuously to attain a life that consistently gives birth to its kind.

Making happiness happen for others is the surest way to sustain personal happiness.

Don’t spread hate, worry, gloominess, fear, that is not your assignment. Engage daily in the business of making everyone around you connect to your fountain of happiness.

According to a philosopher, Confucius,  “If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.”

How do you help someone with happiness?

The happiest people are the ones who make others happy.

We have a great mission here; we are not here only to make ourselves happy but also to infuse happiness in others.

We are commissioned to make happiness happen for others.

The positive energy and vibes emanating from our bowels are designed to cause unique vibrations and experiences in connection with every element of nature around us.

Creating memorable experiences that make someone look back at his life and have an overwhelming smile, joy and be consumed by a burst of uncontrollable laughter is one of the reasons we are here.

However, making happiness happen requires certain deliberate actions:

Happiness is a spiritual exercise that nourishes the soul. It is living every minute of our lives with love, grace, and gratitude. True happiness springs up from the well of gratitude. Everyday practice of gratitude is a journey into a life of happiness and fulfillment.

“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.” – Amy Collette

Perhaps there is no single exercise that serves as a big happiness booster like the practice of gratitude.

At workplaces, gratitude has been described by human resources professionals as one of the major productivity boosters.

Scientifically, there are proven benefits of consistent practice of gratitude. These include more energy, more forgiving attitude, less depression, less anxiousness, more feeling of being socially connected, better sleep, fewer headaches etc.

How do you engage in a consistent practice of gratitude?

“Extraordinary minds understand that happiness comes from within. They begin with happiness in the now and use it as a fuel to drive all their other visions and intentions for themselves and the world.” _ Vishen Lakhiani

Your happiness matters. It is the fuel you can use to drive your ambitions, visions, dreams, aspirations etc.

Your career and business can suffer if you do not consider the art of happiness as a necessity in your journey to success.

This is so important because….

“It turns out that our brains are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive. Yet in today’s world, we ironically sacrifice happiness for success only to lower our brain's success rates.” – Shawon Achor

Happiness matters because it stimulates your brain to perform at a maximum level.

No matter how success-driven you are, sacrificing your happiness today for a success hoped for tomorrow is like preparing for a journey that will end in frustration. You can never be so sure about tomorrow’s event; happiness now matters.

It matters to be happy at the now while pursuing vigorously your life quest.

Why is happiness so important?

“No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,” Philippians 3:13 NLT

What lies ahead of us if far greater, bigger and better than what lies behind.

The pull towards the future is the greatest in life.

The future has no limit.

Mathematics tells us that knowledge of all infinite futures is not possible.

So, how are you twisting the present to connect to the infinite future?

If you are a victim of war, your definition of peace will be quite different from a fellow who had never seen a riot in his life.

If you are a victim of Tsunami, your view about climate change and natural disasters will never be the same as someone who had never seen a river overflowing its bounds.

If your movement has ever been restricted for any reason, your understanding of freedom will defer from a friend who has never had a threat to stay indoors all day.

Therefore, a series of events in our lives affect how we think and see life.

How can we twist the events in our lives?

“Life doesn’t get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

If the current realities are not the ones you are proud of, you can change them.

We are affected by what we know and what we don’t know.

The experiences we have in life and the intensity of those experiences can shape our views of the world and how we relate in it

The experience of a child that grew up in a remote settlement in any part of the world can never be the same with a child of the same age that grew up in a metropolis.

It was never any of their choices but life made it happened.

However, you can twist the experiences to your favour regardless of the part of the world you grew up…

The realignment of our thoughts, actions, emotions is a powerful tool for changing our realities.

Twisting realities simply means succeeding in life despite all the negative circumstances life has brought our ways.

We are all born with certain realities.

None of us determined or decided who our parents were to be. How we were to be born was never a choice. The environment we were born, how we were raised and other factors surrounding our lives we never decided.

In some cases, the circumstances are never favourable.

However, we hold this singular responsibility to ourselves; to twist the realities and make the best out of them.

How do we twist the realities?

Supporting another’s success won't damp yours.

Don’t be consumed in your quest alone, everyone is on a journey.

The better the support we offer one another, the faster our journeys together.

We all have a responsibility to make life beautiful for others.

Les Brown is quoted as saying, “Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.”

How can I support a friend to pursue her life’s quest?