Most of you find it impossible to feel happy and content with your life, don’t you?

It is because when you are inundated with multitude of problems, you become so tensed up that you lose your smile.

You lose your mental peace. You lose your sense of humor. And you wallow in self-pity feeling that you are very unlucky to be surrounded by problems.

You are wrong in feeling so.

If you feel that only a problem free life can make you happy, you can never experience happiness. Because problems are part and parcel of everyone’s life.

Not a single soul in the whole world can escape it. And you too cannot do away with it.

So, understand that only you can make yourself feel happy and content with your life. No one can do it for you.

Here are simplest of simple tricks to feel happy and content with your life

1. Practice positivity

I want to be happy in my life; you want to be happy in your life and so does everyone.

But when your problems press you down, your morale is shattered. Your energy level dips below the danger level. And you become so keyed up that you bid goodbye to your happiness.

• I have no money.
• I am not successful.
• I have too many relationship problems.
• I am cheated and betrayed by people I trusted.
• My friends\relatives are better off than me.
• I face failures in all spheres of my life.
• I am knee deep in debts.

You often quote such reasons for your unhappiness.

Who doesn’t have such problems?

Almost everyone has it.

Understand that your problems can never be a permanent feature in your life. Problems comes and goes. Its existence in your life is transitory and temporary. All you have to do is to wage a relentless war against your problems.

Here are simple tricks to fight against your problems.

• To fight against your problems, you need determination.
• And to be determined you need to be courageous.
• And to be courageous you need to develop a never-say-die-attitude.
• And you can embed the never-say-die-attitude into your life only when you are positive.
• And when you are positive you see the lighter side of life.
• When you see the lighter side of life, you can be happy and content.

Can you see how your contentment and happiness are linked to your positivity?

2. Practice humor

Laughter is the manna of your life.

There is no person in this world who does not have some sort of a problem. If you are glum, your problems are not going to beat a retreat.

But you can minimize the impact of your problems if you take it lightly.

Brace yourself to face your problems with confidence in your mind. I know it is difficult. But you have no other go.

Minimize your unhappiness by spending laughing time with your family and you will find most of your tension easing.

Watch comedy shows to ease your mind.

Yes!

The element of humor can make you feel happy and content with your life.

3. Practice not to feel guilty about your mistakes

Have you done something wrong?

Do you feel very bad about it?

If you keep on thinking about your mistakes, your present life will be miserable.

Why should you spoil your present by worrying about what you have done in your past?

It is ok if you have committed mistakes.

Move on with your life without feeling guilty about your past mistakes. It is your present that matters. Live your present without being guilt ridden.

Who doesn’t make mistakes?

• Do not brood about your mistakes.
• Do not feel unhappy about it.
• Just make sure you never make the same mistake ever again in your life.
• Never hurt others.
• Learn precious lessons from your mistakes.
• Instead of wasting your life in feeling guilty, change yourself into a better person.

Being guilt free leads the way for feeling happy and content with your life.

4. Practice contentment

Do you feel deprived when you do not have the wealth and affluence of others?

If you feel so, you will never feel happy and content with your life, ever. When your mind seethes with unhappiness about your deprivation, you forget to count your blessings.

Yes!

• God has gifted you with many blessings.
• Be satisfied with what you have got.
• This does not mean you should remain static in your life.
• You should do everything for your success
• You should also earn good money.

But do not feel discontented with your life. If you do so, you will lose all your happiness.

So, work hard for your future, not with depression in your heart, but with hopeful anticipation about your success.

5. Practice only to look at your life and never ever compare

When you compare yourself with others, you will experience a sense of lacking.

If you feel others are better than you, you can never feel happy and content with your life.

So, avoid comparing your life with that of others.

• Be satisfied with your success.
• Do not lose your pride by comparing your level of success with that of others.

If you have built a house, be satisfied with your achievement. If on the other hand you compare your house with the bigger house your friend has built, you lose your happiness of building your own home.

Comparison destroys your happiness in a telling manner.

6. Practice happiness in small things

Do you feel you can be happy only if you achieve something really big?

Then you will have to wait for a long time.

There are so many small things in life that can give you immense happiness.

• Has your child taken the first tottering steps of his life?
• Feel happy about it.
• Has your wife cooked your favorite meal?
• Feel happy about it.
• Did your husband buy you the dress you so longed for?
• Feel happy about it.
• Were you appreciated by your boss for your neat work?
• Feel happy about it.

When you learn the trick of being happy for small things, your whole life will become one big kaleidoscope of enjoyment.

7. Practice fulfilment in your perfect body

When you see the physically challenged you must feel happy that God has created you without any impairment.

• You have good vision. Be happy to see the world.
• You have a discerning mind. Use it to improve your life.
• You are able to hear. Enjoy the sounds.
• You are able to walk. Consider yourself lucky to be agile and active.

There are millions of people who are not as blessed as you.

8. Practice the art of amicable co-existence

If you are unable to co-exist in peace with others, you will always be keyed up in your life.

• Co-exist in harmony with your colleague\friends\neighbors.
• Adjust to the faults of your spouse.
• Be understanding towards your children.
• Be friendly with your neighbors.

If you tolerate the small niggling things about people, you will feel happy with your life.

9. Practice happiness.

No one can make you happy except yourself.

• Life is too short to waste it by having grudges against others.
• Overlook your problems.
• Be content with what you have.
• Be friendly and kind.

Understand that happiness begins with you.

10. Practice contentment with what you have.

If you think that if you are rich you can be happy, you are wrong. Money can only give you great buying power, it can never make you happy.

• Can a big car give you happiness when all you do is quarrel with your family?
• Can your money make your married life enjoyable when you do not have compatibility with your spouse?

Money makes you enjoy an enviable social status, nothing else.

Understand that your happiness does not depend on money.

Conclusion

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”- Abraham Lincoln

If you search for happiness and contentment outside you, you will be utterly disappointed. Your happiness exists within you. The way you look at your life decides the level of your happiness.

If you are content with your life, you will be happy.

If you discontented with your life, you will forever be unhappy.

Life is as simple as that.