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How to Choose to Be Happy


How to Choose to Be Happy

Today I’d like to talk about happiness. I know we live in a world that doesn’t seem to contain a lot of happiness. But it does, and it starts with you.

What makes your heart sing? Do you do it or do you just wish you could? Do you think you don’t have enough time or money?  

Happiness Is a Choice

It is our innate nature to be happy. We have so much beauty around us on this planet all we have to do is look around for it. If you are surrounded by people that you love, why aren’t you happy?

Yes, money can feel like an issue. Especially when you can’t pay your bills.  But in reality, that’s not what is the most important thing in life. What’s important is being around people that love and support you – that have your back.  

If you’re feeling happy, the whole world changes. When you are in a higher vibration, things come to you rather than feeling like the world is fighting you.

I was in a very dark place for a while. When I started ballroom dancing, everything changed. I had been dancing my entire life but I had never done ballroom. I saw the world in a new light and all sorts of new things were coming towards me because I wasn’t carrying a dark cloud around. I was doing something that made my heart sing.

I was discovering myself and having new experiences. Not only was all my negative thought form energy leaving but I was actually able to see the negative thought forms that were making me miserable.  

I Started to Choose Every Day to be Happy

I moved to Chicago to write a book. I hated Chicago but I was happy because I was self-discovering and doing something different. I was challenging myself. Writing a book isn’t easy!

When I came back to Colorado and within a couple of years, my mother passed away.  That wasn’t a fun experience either. But I decided I still wanted to be happy. I was grateful to be alive. I still had opportunities to experience things. I was still dancing. I chose to be happy.

Grief is not something easy to get over. It is one of the most difficult emotions. But I worked my way through it because I knew what I wanted. 

All you need to keep moving forward is to understand what you want and to be surrounded by people that support you and allow you to be who you are. It only takes one person to support you and then you have to make that decision to change.  

It is Always Up to You.

I invite you today to discover what it is that makes you happy and go do it.  If you don’t know what makes you happy, then keep asking yourself what it is. It took me a week of asking myself every day what it was that was going to make me happy on a daily basis to realize that it was dance. That is what I chose to do.

I still dance and I still love it. Regardless of how challenging life can be, I am still ultimately happy.

So What Makes Your Heart Sing?  

Go out and do it! Just be a child – even if it’s just for one day. Go back to that childlike nature, with no cares in the world, and watch what the world does for you. It will bless you.


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With love,

Kathleen M. Flanagan

#1 International Best Seller and Multi-Award Winning Author, Transformational Expert and Coach, Aromatherapist and Sound Therapist

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