A quick search on the internet reveals some confusion about what the secret of happiness actually is…
- Keep changing something if you’re not happy, until you are (what exactly to change is missing information).
- Make others believe they are the cause of it (!?)
- Count your blessings while others are adding to their troubles.
- Admire without desiring (!?)
- Not to chase it. It’s like a butterfly so you must pay attention to other things and it will land on your shoulder (a smidgen of truth, but largely useless information).
These web results leave me dumbfounded! These aren’t the way to happiness, they’ll just confuse someone in genuine need of advice that works…
Given that the only thing we really want is happiness, this muddle of confusion won’t do…
Where to look for the secret to happiness?
Well… you could ask a happy person, or you could ask a thousand happy people, and quiz them all about it. Unfortunately they won’t know.
They will probably get you closer than the above “wisdom” because what will happen is they will tend to describe what it is LIKE to be happy… “I feel blessed, spontaneous, energetic, free, loving and I love to help people.” So they might deduce that the secret is “gratitude, spontaneity, energy, freedom, loving and giving.”
These are certainly some of the qualities of happiness but they are not the secret. That would be putting the cart before the horse. Happy people don’t get happy by doing these things. They ARE happy FIRST, and so they do these things naturally.
So how can we find it?
The answer is to ask someone who has CREATED happiness from misery — someone who’s been through hell. They will know! Ask someone who has done all the seeking, researching and experimenting; someone who’s already taken the journey you want to take. I AM that person and after over 20 years of research and experimentation, the secret of happiness is now crystal clear to me.
There’s only ONE master key
There’s only ONE underlying root cause, just one, and I’ve explained it in the very first chapter of Happy Guide. This ONE cause holds, contains and makes effective, all the other causes…
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Scroll down to the Contents and click on “DISCOVER THE HAPPINESS SECRET” which will take you right to the beginning of the chapter.
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— Dr. Ed Dodge, USA
“Wow! What an incredible journey you have been on! Aren’t we all blessed that you decided to share your learnings with us and write your Happiness Secret. Thank you so much.”
— Rebecca, UK
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Thank you very much!
I read ‘The Happiness Secret’. It’s such a simple solution isn’t it? It’s something we all know but don’t know that we know I think. I have a lot of bad habits which I won’t go into but I know they are a symptom of my state of mind and feeling out of control of my situation.
So I am really going to try and turn my life and state of mind around NOW!
Thanks once again and kind regards, Julia
PS I will recommend the book!
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Time and excuses robs one of keeping life simple and enjoyable. Desires and passion can ruin your HAPPINESS if you are not living life in the present moment. Our thoughts determine our actions and our hands carry out these actions. So you are absolutely correct when you talk of our energy and creating good habits. Conscious living will help to keep one in check. Wow…. reading this has inspired me to be POSITIVE.
Thank You.
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it’s good. it’s really a fact for me. All things are all because of our habits. What we’re keep on doing will be the result. Sow and reap… I’m so thankful for this. Through this i will do my best to change the bad habits to good ones.
God bless!
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I always maintain that we don’t spend enough time observing and appreciating nature. To stop for a moment to marvel at a flower or butterfly etc is a therapy in itself. The other thing is to get our hands in the soil, connect with the earth and grow plants for our own enjoyment. Hopefully this may lead to growing crops to enjoy and improve our diets which comes around to improved health and maybe a lessening of some of the stress in our lives which is such a major factor affecting the health of us all.
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Thanks for putting The Happiness Secret together. You have put it in a nutshell in a few short pages. Excellent!
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