Go For What Makes You Happy

As you live, day by day, you will have experiences. Many, many experiences. And these experiences help you learn many things - what things you like or don't like, what things you should and should not do, and what makes you sad and what makes you happy. They teach you how to deal with yourself, at the same time teaching you how to deal with others. Experiences indeed dictate who you become.


Most of the time, though, people are stuck with more memories of bad and sad moments than memories of good and happy moments. From this comes the old adage, "Experience is the best teacher." It's all well if you learn to keep your emotions from interfering with how you live your life. Sadly, many, many people live their lives trying to AVOID bad experiences. They fail to realize that by focusing on the negative, and working to avoid it, they use up so much of their time and energy that they rarely get to what really makes them HAPPY.


Now, let's take a little trip back into time. You're a little kid, maybe playing around or watching the world around you. Curiosity leads you to look out the window, and you see a beautiful garden with butterflies, birds hopping about merrily, and trees being blown to and fro by the steady breeze, all lit up by the gentle sunlight. Beautiful, isn't it? This is something innate in all human beings - nature on its own, with a little guidance from human hands, gives you this feeling of simple happiness, being right there in that moment.


Remember how you felt? Simple happiness such as that can be expanded to include many aspects of your life. Being happy with your family or friends stems from first being happy with and just by yourself! Then you just become contagious. People are happy around you as well. Surely beats out being pessimistic and negative, right?


So, how do you become happy? Well, I can't tell you! It's a personal thing, you see. But the surest thing is to do what makes you happy. If you are just doing things to avoid certain bad experiences, you won't be happy. If you're doing things just for survival, you'll find it very hard to become happy. Finding what you like doing may require you to sacrifice a bit. Let me give you a tip: Work your job or jobs, but find time in every day to hone your skills in what you like doing. Find time. This is very important. 


In honing your skills every day, you will eventually get good enough to earn some income from what you want to be doing. Then you can let go of the extra job, or get a job that requires less time from you. Then you can practice more. Then you get so good you can make a living from what you like doing! And THAT is a career, in its truest sense. You must hold on to what you like doing no matter what!


It might be far-fetched an idea, but let me give you an example. A friend of mine really likes singing. And she is darn good, but not yet good enough to perform. She works in a corporation, has a hectic schedule, but always finds an hour in which to sing, sing and sing. A few years later, at a party my grandparents hosted, she dedicated a song to them. Turns out their friend who owns a classy lounge restaurant was there, and she was asked to perform the week later! That's how her career started. She's not famous all over the world, but she makes enough money from appearances that she was able to quit her corporate job. How's that for a retirement?


This is an example of truly working with your skills and talents. Hone them, and they will pay you well, not just financially but emotionally. Find out what you do that makes you happy, and get GOOD at it. Let me know how you're doing too. I know you will succeed!