Surveys indicate that Americans' satisfaction with their personal lives reached a near-record low in 2024, but you can offset that with these 15 habits.
Happiness is a muscle that can be trained, says Ricard, also an advisor and translator to the Dalai Lama. We train it by developing qualities such as altruistic love, inner peace and mindfulness (with the help of meditation). This is how he defines it: "Happiness is a state of internal fulfillment, not the satisfaction of inexhaustible desires for external things."
There is a direct relationship between self-esteem and the perception of being useful to others. When we feel that our presence does not count, that our actions have no impact and that we are not leaving a mark on life, it seems empty to us.
That is why happy people have projects to improve society and contribute their help on a small scale. They know that any initiative makes a difference, in the minds of others and in their own. Robert Ingersoll, great American orator, said that "by elevating others, we elevate ourselves."
Proactive people do not waste time projecting themselves into the future, where anxiety and fear reside, nor into the past, home of sadness and resentment. They are always doing and that keeps them awake in the present.
As the actress and influencer Imma Rabasco says: «Laughter is the sound of the cosmos, the song of life, the joy of being in the world. Laughter gives oxygen, it makes us feel alive and connected.
Happy people surround themselves with optimistic and healthy friends, they take care of them and know how to choose allies. As in John Donne's poem, "No man is an entire island of himself. Each man is a piece of the continent, a part of the whole. Being generous, positive and not believing ourselves to be the center of the universe is a magnet for this type of relationship. In this sense Diogenes states, the person with the fewest needs is the freest and happiest. Happiness has to do with having a life plan. Love, emotional balance, goals, culture, inner peace and friendship
Happiness is a muscle that can be trained, says Ricard, also an advisor and translator to the Dalai Lama. We train it by developing qualities such as altruistic love, inner peace and mindfulness (with the help of meditation). This is how he defines it: "Happiness is a state of internal fulfillment, not the satisfaction of inexhaustible desires for external things."
There is a direct relationship between self-esteem and the perception of being useful to others. When we feel that our presence does not count, that our actions have no impact and that we are not leaving a mark on life, it seems empty to us.
That is why happy people have projects to improve society and contribute their help on a small scale. They know that any initiative makes a difference, in the minds of others and in their own. Robert Ingersoll, great American orator, said that "by elevating others, we elevate ourselves."
Proactive people do not waste time projecting themselves into the future, where anxiety and fear reside, nor into the past, home of sadness and resentment. They are always doing and that keeps them awake in the present.
As the actress and influencer Imma Rabasco says: «Laughter is the sound of the cosmos, the song of life, the joy of being in the world. Laughter gives oxygen, it makes us feel alive and connected.
Happy people surround themselves with optimistic and healthy friends, they take care of them and know how to choose allies. As in John Donne's poem, "No man is an entire island of himself. Each man is a piece of the continent, a part of the whole. Being generous, positive and not believing ourselves to be the center of the universe is a magnet for this type of relationship. In this sense Diogenes states, the person with the fewest needs is the freest and happiest. Happiness has to do with having a life plan. Love, emotional balance, goals, culture, inner peace and friendship