How to find happiness when you’re broke and unhappy? Popular pro-life quotes are a powerful way to stay inspired when you’re tired of fighting for life. These quotes will remind you that even though it may seem like there’s nothing left to do, we can’t give up because every life is worth fighting for.
Happiness is a process, not an endpoint.
It’s easy to think of happiness as something that will happen, but it’s not that simple. Happiness is not just a feeling; it’s a process. Think about your favorite songs or movies: how did they make you feel? Were you more alive? Did your heart race and pulse quicken with excitement? Was there laughter and joy in those moments? If so, then those are the things that makeup happiness. Happiness isn’t just about being happy, choosing to be happy with yourself regardless of what happens in life or how others treat you.
Happiness is also not necessarily about having everything go according to plan or having everything work out exactly how you want it to, it’s learning from mistakes and moving on into the future with less baggage than before
Don’t judge your happiness on others’ standards.
One of the fastest ways to make yourself unhappy is to compare your situation to those around you. If a friend gets a new car and it makes her happy, why don’t you get one too? You might think that if she can afford a new car, there must surely be something wrong with yours. But is this true?
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You might also compare your life with others by thinking about what they have that you don’t or what opportunities or experiences they have had that are missing from your own life. For example: “Why am I not living in Paris like my friend is? She has always wanted to live there. How come she got such an amazing job opportunity? It should have been me. This proves how unfair the world is.”
The problem with these thoughts is that they only fuel feelings of envy and discontentment toward other people instead of helping us focus on what we want for ourselves as individuals. Suppose we allow ourselves to fall into this trap. In that case, it will be difficult for us ever find happiness again because our minds will constantly be filled with thoughts about how other people have things we want, and since everyone in our lives (or even on Earth) can’t get everything they want all at once (or ever), there will always be someone out there who has something better than us at any given time, and thus always giving us something else which could potentially make us happier than where we currently stand in life.
You don’t have to be happy every day.
The first thing you need to do is understand that happiness is a choice. It’s OK to feel sad sometimes, angry, frustrated, anxious, and bored. You don’t have to be happy every day, and it’s better if you don’t because when your life becomes good again (which I promise it will), you will truly appreciate the joy of being happy once more.
Happiness shouldn’t be an all-or-nothing proposition; otherwise, we might never get there.
If you can’t fix it, frame it as a challenge rather than a problem.
- Focus on what you can do to fix the problem. If you’re having trouble with your job or relationship, don’t just sit around complaining about it. Instead of focusing on how miserable you feel, take some time to think about what steps you might be able to take to improve your situation.
- Focus on making the best out of a bad situation. Sometimes we may have no choice but to accept our problems as they are and work within the limitations that come with them, but other times, we can find ways around them by thinking outside the box and looking at things in new ways. Maybe there’s another job that would suit your skills more closely; maybe there’s someone else who could use some help with something that needs doing; maybe there are other people who could help teach you new skills (and vice versa).
- Focus on learning from your problems instead of letting them weigh down on you too much or keep bringing up negative thoughts whenever something reminds us how poorly things turned out for us recently, which leads me straight into my next point…
Identify things that already make you happy and do more of them.
When you’re feeling down and unhappy, it’s essential to turn your attention inward. Ask yourself what makes you happy. What activities do you enjoy that aren’t related to money or material things?
Then, list these items and identify how often you do them. If some things are on the list that rarely gets done, take time to figure out why and how you can change them so that more time gets devoted to the activities that bring joy into your life.
If money is tight and things on the list require more funds than what is in your pocketbook right now, try thinking about ways around this problem, too, maybe with a friend or family member who has some extra cash lying around for fun stuff like this. Or perhaps there are less expensive versions of these fun activities nearby where prices have been slashed in half because of some promotion (like at amusement parks).
It doesn’t matter if these solutions seem unrealistic at first glance; they’ll start becoming feasible options as soon as we start brainstorming together.
Be grateful for what you have rather than resentful about what you don’t have.
Gratitude is a choice. It’s a way of thinking and a way of life. It doesn’t just happen to you, you have to choose it every day, in every situation. Gratitude can be cultivated through meditation and journaling. Still, it also occurs naturally when we shift our perspective from seeing the world as something against us (the glass half empty) to seeing it as something we have access to and control over (the glass half full).
When you practice gratitude regularly, it becomes part of your personality: You’re more likely to feel grateful for things others take for granted because they’re so accustomed to them.
And even if you’re still not happy, that doesn’t mean you’re a failure. It just means that there’s more work to do. If you’ve read this far and decided it’s time for a change in your life, congratulations. The first step is always the hardest, but now that you know what happiness looks like for you, we can start working on making it happen.
