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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

We’re in love with stuff — with shopping, with acquiring, with owning, with collecting. Let’s lust after life instead.

Love Life, Not Stuff

For many of us, the ultimate goal in life is happiness (well I want to believe so).
Whether we see fulfillment in our work, contentment in our relationships, passion in our hobbies…we strive to find happiness.

And yet, this search for happiness can be a lifelong search, especially if we look at happiness as something that will come once we achieve certain goals or in today’s materialistic world we’re always looking to have the coolest things— a nice home, a perfect spouse, the ultimate promotion … and when we get these goals, instead of being happy, we often are looking forward to being happy when we meet our next goals.

Happiness should be here and now, who we are now, with the people we’re with now, doing the things we’re doing now, and it shouldn’t be something that happens to us in the future, maybe someday, if “things go well”. If we’re not with people who make us happy and doing things that make us happy … then we should take action to make that happen.

Taking action to do the things that make you happy, with the people who make you happy, and to be happy with the person you are now, that’s the simple formula for happiness.

(Disclaimer: this probably doesn’t apply, of course, to those who are clinically depressed or who have other similar medical conditions which I am not qualified to discuss.)

Don’t wait for happiness. Seize it.