10 Behaviors That Guarantee Your Happiness

All right, welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. George Wright III here with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I hope you had a great weekend. And I'm looking forward to talking with you today a little bit more about the ways that you can create more happiness. And, you know, a little while back I had an article, and I think you've known this about me. I'll find articles that I really enjoy and I'll keep copies of them and go back to them often. And there was a great article in Inc. Magazine called The Secret to Happiness is 10 Specific Behaviors. The Secret to Happiness is 10 Specific Behaviors. And I'll tell you what, there are ways for you, not just decisions to make happiness, but ways for you to increase your happiness level. And despite happiness being a primary human motivation, I always find it very, very odd that only one in three Americans say they're happy. Why is it that everyone is so unhappy with their circumstances if they're chasing that happiness level most of the time? Well, I think it's because I think we haven't made the decision to clearly develop a life around that. Bad stuff happens to everybody, but the quality of life isn't about what happens to you. It's the quality of life and happiness depends on how you respond to what happens to you. So it's very, very important that you have intention in your life and you make that decision to be happy. And I thought this article was great because it gives 10 behaviors that if you apply these will help you to be a much happier person. And sometimes, you know, this elusive idea of happiness is something that is hard for us. So I thought, well, these would be 10 great suggestions of what you can do in order to become more happy. And they're behaviors that you can adopt. And so I hope these are ones that will help you as you go throughout the week. The first one is let go of the need for specific outcomes. This is a really hard one for a lot of people. Fall in love with the process and the results of happiness will follow. You know, when I work to close deals, negotiate, strategize, do business, I'll always do more when I focus on the race or the actual process rather than the finish line. And so if you want to become more happy, let go of the need for specific outcomes. The second behavior is to define your own success and happiness You know you heard me talk in the past about this article I wrote with one of my past mentors Robert Stubberg on success and failure and how failure can be greater than success But it always just boils back down to how do you define success and happiness in your life? If happiness and success is overcoming challenges and you frame it that way, then you are creating happiness in your life. And so define, be the one who defines your own success and happiness. The third behavior is commit 100% to the things that make you happy. Think about that for a minute. There's a quote by Gandhi which says, happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. why don't you just commit 100% to make all of your future decisions revolve around things that make you happy and as long as they're productive as long as they're aligned with your goals you're going to create that happiness and fulfillment in your life so that's the third behavior for happiness the fourth suggestion the fourth behavior if you want to create more happiness and guarantee your happiness is be grateful for what you already have I love that quote, happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have. And happiness can be as simple as gratitude. Practicing gratitude. Remember, being grateful and practicing gratitude are a couple of different things. When you do stuff like journaling and daily reminders or acts of service, your love language, other people's love language, these are ways that you can practice gratitude. and being grateful for what you have is one of the best ways to create happiness and guarantee your happiness. You know, I've always been a big fan of vision boards, but a gratitude journal is even more incredible for you to create happiness. Okay, the fifth behavior is say, I love you more. Simple words that bring happiness to other people. And when you bring happiness to other people, you're going to start to create a frequency to attract what you want in your life. Remember, you have to be what you want to have in your life. So say, I love you more often. If you're willing to do that, you're going to find you're going to get that in return. And happiness and love are very, very connected. The sixth behavior the sixth behavior that I really love this one if you trying to guarantee more happiness in your life and that is have hobbies directed towards your dreams Have hobbies directed towards your dreams See a lot of us use hobbies or things like that to escape. And what I've found more and more in my life is that when you create daily rituals or hobbies or pursuits of passion and you align those around your dreams, you're going to create more happiness and focus on creating the best life that you want. You know, I've experienced this in my day-to-day and it helps me and it grounds me as well because when your hobbies and your passions, it's back to this idea of unique talent. The best thing you could possibly do in business and in life is to align yourself around your unique talent, which is stuff you're passionate and excellent at. So why not have your passions, your hobbies be directed towards your dreams as well? Then it's not a separation of, am I doing work or am I having a life? Am I creating my best life or am I at work? Do you have family or do you have work? It can all be part of the same thing when you align your hobbies with your dreams. The seventh behavior, don't wait till tomorrow for what you can do today. Procrastination is the enemy of greatness. Don't put your happiness off until tomorrow. Experience it in the present. So many of us are like, you know, you've heard it over and over. Work today like most won't so you can have tomorrow what most won't have. But you've got to create happiness now. Happiness is the way. It's not the destination. So don't put your happiness off till tomorrow. Experience it in the present. You know, I used to work for the future. I used to work for the end goal. But I realized that the present is the future I thought about yesterday. Think about that. The present is the future I thought about yesterday. It's so important to just live in the present and don't put off tomorrow, which you can do today. The eighth behavior, do something every day that terrifies you. I know this sounds counterintuitive to happiness, but do something every day that terrifies you. The status quo is a recipe for dull, boring, stale life. Your best life lies outside your comfort zone. And if you haven't heard me say it before, I'm going to say it over and over. The more and more you are pushing and growing and progressing, the more happy you're going to be. So do something every day that terrifies you. Do something that you've been putting off Do something you know you need to do that will give you that sense of fulfillment and happiness Do something every day that terrifies you Number nine the ninth behavior you can do in order to create more happiness and guarantee more happiness in your life is put the important before the urgent Put the important before the urgent. So many of us go throughout our day and we are the passenger of life. We're not the driver of life. We're doing and responding and reacting to everything out there. And that's why you feel stuck. That's why you don't feel like you have freedom because you're at the beck and call of everyone else. Do the important stuff before you do the urgent stuff, the stuff you can't get around. Do that important stuff first thing. That's one of the key success principles you have to learn to create happiness in your life is do the important things because when you do the important things first, you're going to be more fulfilled because you're going to have more success. You're going to have more happiness. And then the 10th behavior that will help guarantee your happiness is to forego the good to pursue the best. Forego the good to pursue the best. Think about that for a minute. Many times in my life, I've settled for high levels of success instead of pushing for greatness. How many times have you settled for good because of fear, because of circumstances or whatever it is? Greatness is growth. Happiness is growth. Don't settle for good when you can have the best, when you can have the best. So these are 10 different ways that you can guarantee happiness in your life, 10 different habits. Keep in mind, we're all searching for happiness. We're all searching for happiness. But are you doing the things, the activities, the behaviors that you need to create happiness? And I just gave you 10 very, very good suggestions. I hope they're ones that will help you. I hope they'll inspire you. Do me a favor, share this show. I know you've been thinking about it, but do it today. Push this episode out, share it, tag me in it at The Daily Mastermind on Instagram, TikTok, or even Facebook. I would love to see what you're doing. I'd love to see what I could do to help you. Now, tomorrow, I'm going to talk to you about some critical questions you can use to go to the next level in your life. Some things that might help you kind of course adjust, get a little more clarity, a little bit more focus, something that'll help you drive forward. That's what I'm going to help you with tomorrow. So don't miss an episode tomorrow. Hit like and subscribe so you get that. And once again, this is George Wright III. This has been The Daily Mastermind. I'll talk with you soon. you