feel more peaceful

If this all sounds too hard, just try it for a week

and see if you feel more peaceful and content.

It’s much easier to be happy without all those

negative messages.

In addition to the happiness traps of money,

power, and being fake, there are a few

persistent attitudes that are huge obstacles to

happiness. These are victimization, feelings of

entitlement, waiting for rescue, and blaming.

The common thread is staying stuck and

focusing on what you can’t do, instead of

taking full responsibility and control to change

your life.

In short, happiness doesn’t come from

circumstances, and neither does unhappiness.

Money, possessions, fame, or power can’t

make you happy, and terrible things happening

to you don’t have to make you unhappy unless

you hang onto them and let them define you

listen, the harder it is to be happy. These

messages make a difference, so protect

yourself from them as much as you can. Use

an ad blocker on your web browser. If you

listen to commercial radio, switch stations

when the commercials come on. If you watch

tv, at least mute the commercials, or better,

watch a recording and skip past them. Better

still, stop watching tv. Most of the shows are

also designed to make you unhappy so you’ll

buy more of the advertisers’ products.

If this all sounds too hard, just try it for a week

and see if you feel more peaceful and content.

It’s much easier to be happy without all those

negative messages