Cherish what makes you happy!

Cherish what makes you happy!

What is happiness?  What do you need to do to be happy and how do you keep happiness?

I am sure there is no one specific answer and everyone will have their own opinion on this subject.      In today’s world there is so much suffering around us, natural disasters, wars, poverty and hard financial times among other things, and for most people life is getting harder every year. In such challenging times it is very hard to find constant happiness.  So how is it possible to keep happy?

When we are teenagers we all have something we really enjoy doing, we all have our own problems and challenges but there is always something we really like doing. Whatever it is, it takes our mind off things, we forget about the rest of the world and we just are in the moment. For me it was and still is sport, but it could be other things as well.  

When we get older our priorities change, we now have to pay bills, provide for ourselves and look after our families. Lots of us get stuck in jobs we don’t really enjoy, but someone has to pay the bills and often we lose our zest for life. Our days become monotonous and boring, we forget about the things which used to make us happy.  We now have less time for ourselves because of the busy lifestyle most of us have.  

One of the ways to bring back and sustain happiness is to determine what it is that makes us happy and cherish it. From many years of involvement in different sports, and research of association between sport and general wellbeing, I can confidently say that doing some sort of sport in ones life will bring happiness and balance. Sport or physical exercise might not bring instant happiness but it will definitely take your mind off whatever it is that bothers you.  Most exercises will raise your heart rate and get more oxygen to your body, what this does is gives you a “clear mind” and better mindset to deal with everyday life.

At one of the openings of the Olympic games the president of the Olympic committee said;”Sport is friendship, sport is health, sport is everything”

Make a point to do more psychical exercise and I can assure you your life will be much happier one!

To achieve your goals you need happiness, sad people hardly achieve much.