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You wake up, your eyelids stuck shut. You ramble through your morning routine, with a deep sigh. Caffeine helps. A shower helps a little more. Then you’re finally ready to face (sigh) another day. How did things get to be this way? Or better, how did you get to be this way? You wonder if there was ever a time when you didn’t feel so shut down, fearful, crazed, and diminished.

We spend all day trying to bend the “I cant’s” into “I’ll try’s” and hoping for the best. It may be that all we need is a single “I will.” It can be one of your choosing, or something like:

I will enjoy it. I will laugh through it. I will bless it up, down and sideways.

-Mina Parker/Beliefnet.com

Learning to accept the things that we perceive as wrong can be a difficult task for many of us. Often we have been brought up to accept that it is normal to feel guilty about our actions and that by doing so we will make everything seem alright within ourselves.

Do you find yourself consistently miserable and stressed? I used to but now even my infamous ‘grumpy-old-man’ moods are underpinned by a strong undercurrent of contentment and joy. Why? Because along the way I have learned some awesome ideas that helped me to discover deep and lasting happiness.

7 Ways to Discover Deep and Lasting Happiness