subject: Discover How To Be Happier And More Successful [print this page] The search for happiness feels for some people like the search for the holy grail. Ask anyone you know, even yourself, what happiness looks like and they will say happiness is to be thin, or to be rich, or to be loved. What most people don't understand is that they all have the key to unlock that happiness; they just don't realise it.
It's so simple that the answer is sometimes shocking. The key to unlocking happiness in your life is to be ready to change.
Wishing to be thin won't get you anywhere, you can't change by magic, you need to be ready to make the changes in your life so that you can lose that weight. You need to sit down and have a serious think about why you are overweight. Maybe you feel unloved and your weight is a security blanket or a force field. Until you deal with those feelings you'll never really want to make the changes you need to make to lose weight and be happy.
Maybe you think you're always unlucky in love and that you can never find Mr Right so you always end the relationships. Is that the real reason? Or perhaps you are scared of being abandoned so you always walk away from relationships before your partner can leave you? When you finally decide that it's time to make the change you will have to face your worst fears, but that in turn will lead you down the road to happiness.
Maybe your search for happiness lies in a promotion at work, but you always get passed over every time you apply for a new role. The question is; do you believe in your heart that you are ready and worthy of that promotion? Because if you don't that is the impression you will project onto the interviewer and you will never be offered your dream job. Achieving your goal and unlocking your happiness requires you to make a change to your core beliefs about your value.
You will know that you are ready to make changes in your life to unlock the door to happiness when you stop using words like can't, try, must and should have. Words are powerful things and positive words can bring you empowerment; when you are ready to change you will start to say that you can, and you will and you have.
Whatever it is you seek to make you happy just remember that the key to unlocking that happiness is inside you, and all you need to do to open the door is to acknowledge that you need to change and to do something about it.
