HOW TO BE HAPPY #coined from Bishop T.D Jakes

Just this morning, I saw this clip on facebook  from the Steve Harvey's show where he was interviewing Bishop T.D Jakes, and because the Bishop was someone I got to know when I was younger because my dad was always watching his Tv channel I felt pressured to click it and lo and behold it was talking about a question I have always asked myself especially recently. I've discovered  that most people around me, my colleagues, friends and people in my age circumference "I think'' are depressed and just unhappy about one thing or the other, and really I can say that also about myself.

In some cases where am able to get the reason why, I hear words like "see ehn, am confused about my life, am worried about my future, four years ago i thought me doing this or that will make me happy but it seems as there is no light in the end of the tunnel' life is just getting more difficult" and the best phrase have heard ever " life is a pot of beans".  And I do relate with all this complaints every time. So, back to the clip from the show, he was describing five actions that made him happy, so I felt inspired to understand it in my own words. Here you have it.

1.OWN YOUR HAPPINESS :  Your happiness should be in your hands, not in the hands of your friends, teachers or even partners in relationship or marriage. you should be the one to define your own happiness.

2. CHALLENGE YOUR STORY :  Its simple, if you are not happy about your present condition, just take a moment and review your life to see what possible changes you can make and challenging yourself to take a good step of making yourself happy.

3. ENJOY THE JOURNEY: Most of us spend our time worrying "too much" about how perfect the future has to be and we forget to enjoy the journey of getting there. It is said that Rome was not built in a day, so its better to enjoy the process and do things that we make you look back and be proud of yourself.

4. MAKE RELATIONSHIPS COUNT: I find myself guilty of this sometimes, because as human beings that we are, we sometimes need someone to lean on. First, make your relationship with God count first, so at least when you  are having troubles and challenges you know you have Him to hold onto, cos really you can trust anyone to be always there for you in times of difficult situation. I've learnt that in so many ways. Second, make your relationship with "people" count, i.e friends, families, colleagues, partners. As far as they are not pulling you down on the ladder to success.

5. BALANCE WORK WITH PLAY: Very straightforward, its easy....travel, go see places, make more friends, try things you have not tried before (good things though) whatever you can think of. Or else you will find yourself drained up everytime.

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