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.
Happy reading!
“Thanks for putting The Happiness Secret together. You have put it in a nutshell in a few short pages. Excellent!”
— 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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Michael Kinnaird is the author of Happy Guide, the result of a 20 year exploration into what works for health and happiness.
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After all my childhood to teenagehood, I feel like I have fooled myself into depression and other negative symptoms. Now I really want to start a new, happy life starting now, and make changes. The Happiness Secret has totally made me want to do something.
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Thank you for the revival.
It is so simple to be happy and healthy, just being aware of your habits.
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everything makes sense, it’s up to each one of us to put in the effort. I realized that I had no power over my thoughts. Whenever something bothered me it completely me took me over. Now I learnt to shut stuff out and not dwell un unproductive or disturbing thoughts. Thanks, Mike! I hope in time i will get better at this and some day I will the master of my own mind.
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I’ve been trying to link all the answers to ‘life’ i’m getting for years! But The Happiness Secret went straight to the heart of it all. Indeed, it is what we do all day long that shapes our lives!
This makes real sense to me now. What we think, feel and do all day everyday becomes our “beliefs” and what we believe, we manifest into our lives. And a good thing that came to my mind is that whatever habit we have, we always have the power to ‘CHANGE’ it because of ‘FREE WILL’. It now dawned to me that i can now shape my life in anyway i want it. I just thought i was stuck in my present situation. Well, i’m not anymore. Starting TODAY! Thanks a million Mike!
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I read the Secret to Happiness guide, and I really enjoyed it :)
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