There are several misconceptions about happiness that can prevent people from achieving it or make it more difficult to maintain. Here are a few common myths and misconceptions:

Recognize and address sources of unhappiness in your life. You can change many of these things to increase your happiness, strengthen your relationships and achieve your dreams!

Remember that happiness is a journey, and it's okay to have setbacks and struggles along the way. Be patient with yourself and continue to work towards cultivating a happier, more fulfilling life.

Take the quiz to find out what things you are avoiding that could make you happy. Are you choosing happy or avoiding it? This assessment will help you find out.

Would you like to be more happy, connected, and successful? What is one area you are going to start working on right now?

What are 10 unexpected things that make you happy? What are some of the most annoying things a coworker can do? If you could get the help you need in any area right now, what would it be?

Choose how to think, feel, believe, then we speak and act accordingly- all of which combine to create our reality. Thinking is the first step, the decider of how the rest of this process will go.

In this powerful post, I share my personal story of overcoming depression. I went from feeling like I would never be happy again to teaching people how to choose happy in their lives.

A powerful illustration of how one person’s choices can have a profound and often long-lasting impact on their loved ones, sometimes for generations. Break the chains of the past...

Whether we realize it or not, most of us choose to be unhappy. We do this by choosing things that lead to unhappiness. Some things that lead to misery are preventable

It is the perpetual challenge of life to remember how to be, how not to be, and then do it, regardless of what happens around you. Perhaps the most powerful thing is that you have the power to decide.

Impatience may seem to yield results in the short term, but it can have long-lasting negative repercussions

If you envy the success of others, don’t just look at what they have that you don’t have, look at what they did that you didn’t do

Replaying the pain on a repetitious loop does not teach the other person that they were wrong, that they shouldn’t have done it, or that they should sincerely apologize and help you feel better

Being right is not the same as being happy. You can usually be right OR happy- rarely both at the same time. To increase happiness, being right is wrong

Being kind is a win-win. It feels great for the giver and the receiver. There are no negative consequences to kindness.

If you are willing to NOT do what you WANT to do and to DO what you DON'T WANT to do, you can shift your health, wealth, relationships, and personal growth in massive ways through this small, simple

What if we practiced self-confidence instead? We believe what we tell ourselves when we are self-critical, we could come to believe what we tell ourselves from confidence and resourcefulness.

If you can’t control your thoughts and feelings who can? You are the thinker of your thoughts and the creator and perpetuator of your emotions

Be the kind of person that gives more than you receive and helps more than you take, and you will be the kind of person that blesses more than you burden

The way to “happily ever after” is to let go of your expectation of what “happily ever after” looks like

Don’t be the kind of person who would rather give up than risk not doing well. In quitting, you secure and guarantee your failure

Those who are not internally motivated work for those who are. Muster up motivation and blast through fears, procrastination, perfectionism, skepticism, inspire others and achieve extraordinary things

Expecting the worst-case scenario will not help you have a better outcome. It will only cause stress and anxiety. It can also become a self-fulfilling prophecy because you get what you focus on

It is a refined and mature person who has self-mastery enough to express oneself positively instead of punitively, creatively instead of crassly.

Fighting for your greatness tends to make you more of what is great. Fighting for your limitations makes you more limited. It’s the fight that does it.

You will either sacrifice what you want most for what you think you want right now, or you will sacrifice what you think you want right now for what you want most. Don’t sacrifice years of happiness

Be courageously vulnerable enough to be who you really are, your truest and most genuine self. Do not fear the reactions of others; fear those who would prefer a facade over the real you

Worry is something our brains developed to keep us alert to possible dangers in an effort to protect us. Far better than worrying about what will happen is going out and making things happen

Your life’s purpose is not to sit passively in a waiting room until your problems disappear. Your purpose is to do what you can, change what you can, and learn what you can now

The happiest people know that where blame exists, misery persists. Those five words will change your entire life if you have the courage to embrace them. Blame causes unhappiness

Letting fear stop you is the luxury of a comfort zone. The thing that terrifies you is the most important priority you have right now. It won’t kill you; it will create you

When you emotionally react to someone, several things happen simultaneously: First, you give your emotional control and power to someone outside of yourself. Second...

Instead of sharing the story of your sorrows, (which makes everyone unhappy), generously share the story of other people’s triumphs, which inspires everyone to carry burdens with more grace

No person, event, or thing can make you think a certain thought, feel a certain emotion, say certain words, or enact certain actions. You are the only one who can choose these things for yourself

The only sane way to deal with problems is to find ways to mitigate, circumvent, traverse, or solve them. Focusing on your ability to find a solution makes it more likely that you will find a solution

My friend has stage 4 cancer... he qualified for and ran the Boston marathon. In the marathon of life, qualify yourself for greatness, run your best race, and enjoy the sacred journey.

Each of us has the power to choose to act or to be acted upon. Choosing to act leads to more fulfillment, peace, achievement, positive feelings, better relationships, and better results in your life.

Most people, perhaps all people, have a slow self-destruct button that they press often. It isn’t lethal, at least not immediately, it is like a slow poison that gradually makes you weaker and sicker

Think of the things you want to achieve in your life. Do you want to put your energy into creating your dream, or into creating an ironclad alibi for being nowhere near that dream?

The pains of the past are the lessons of the present and the strengths of the future. The future doesn’t play favorites. The future favors decision-makers and action-takers