What brings about happiness should be paramount and foremost to each individual, we all deserve to know and gladly indulge in what brings us immense joy and fulfillment. Your source of constant happiness might be tangible indulgences like diligently building on your career, your course of study in school, your interaction with other individuals, your passion for something, or generally, what you do at leisure like listening to music, reading, surfing the internet, retail therapy and many more.
Nowadays, the majority go about the day’s activities looking worn and morose without a care as to what makes them happy and lightens up their spirit.
Some are clueless about the things that make them happy and those who have one way or the other disregard what brings them happiness, subconsciously or unconsciously overlooking and setting aside what makes them happy due to tedious workloads at the workplace or school, they tend to be so worn out from excessive workloads and overwhelmed with deadlines so much that there is no time to think about what brings them happiness let alone actualizing them. While some out of care and selflessness tend to make other people’s happiness, particularly their loved ones, a priority over their happiness. This kind of people tries everything possible to make sure you are comfortable, healthy, and nourished while being oblivious to the lack of care for themselves. How then do these people discover what makes them happy? Below are tips to discover what makes you radiate with happiness as an individual;
How to discover what makes you happy.
1. HAVE THE RIGHT MINDSET
One of the pathways to discovering what incites happiness in you is having the right mindset and harboring happy thoughts. Prepare your mind towards positive thoughts, reminisce on things that you’ve possibly done in the past that made you immensely happy, remember the pleasurable moments, and memorable experiences you have had, and try doing those things again to spark joy.
2. DISCOVER YOUR HOBBIES/PASSION
• Hobbies:
Hobbies are pleasure-inducing or dopamine-pleasing activities done to evoke enjoyment in leisure time. Check yourself, and your surroundings for a particular thing you enjoy doing that brings you immense pleasure. Even as a person busy with workloads from work or school, there must be something you do that brings a smile to your face each time you indulge in it, find it, and do it over and over to induce happiness.
• Passion:
When we talk about passion, it is simply the great love or strong interest we have in something almost to a fault. Passion in this context is a career path or a lifetime interest that certainly makes you feel happy and fulfilled to do it. It is common knowledge that in the course of obeying our parents, one might be studying or might have studied a course totally of our parents’ chosen and not of ours just to please them. Also, our choice might have been altered by the institution of choice, which in the process leaves us unhappy and unfulfilled. It is not late to pursue what you wanted from the onset, it is never too late to cross over from that course to the one you’re passionate about, not too late to learn and build that career path. See this content as a piece of encouragement to restrategize and center on your passion, if the chance ever comes to make a change seize it and make good use of it. A life of unhappiness & unfulfillment is not worth living.
3. PRIORITIZE YOURSELF
Yes, you are a kind person who finds it hard to say no to people even at the expense of your happiness. Sorry, but it is less of a flex compared to prioritizing yourself first and above all. Now, that’s a flex! Resist the urge to bend easily to people’s demands if it’s at the expense of your happiness and fulfillment.
Anything that requires doing for others, that will puncture your constant laughter, do not do it! Find the courage to say no, buy that stuff before you buy for others! It may be as little as reading a book, read that book before you lend it out! wear that new wig before lending it out to a friend who you do not offend! Look after your wellbeing as much as you do others and practice self-care. Above all, eat foods that make you happy!