Choose Happiness!
Some years ago a boss of mine told me that he heard a speaker once (Anthony Robbins, I believe) talk about choosing every morning before you put your feet on the floor to choose to be happy and to feel the wonder of life in the day you are entering ... or, to decide to have a rotten day. He told me he started to literally do that, and what he found when he faced himself with that choice each morning was that he never wanted to choose to be miserable. So he always chose happiness ... and ... once he started to CHOOSE HAPPINESS, he never had a "bad day" again!
So, I adopted the habit too ... to CHOOSE HAPPINESS first thing each morning. And you know what? I have found that, even on a "difficult day," I AM HAPPY! There is a river of joy within each of us. All we have to do is decide not to block the flow.
Taking this a step further, as you encounter each experience within your day ... arriving at work to a desk full of papers, a grumpy person in a meeting, slow traffic on the way home, irritable children or husband when you arrive home ... you get to choose how you will move through each experience. You can be at peace as you experience the slow traffic (and find things to keep your emotions high, like singing your lungs out with the tunes on the radio), or you can choose to be miserable as you experience the slow traffic.
See?
Happiness is not a condition; it is a choice.
I hope you can feel the joy flowing through you. For me, this is real. This is a way of life. This is what I have come to know is our natural state of being. May it be infectious! May your own river of JOY be absolutely bursting from its banks!
To your JOY,
CJ