find happiness at the supermarket

We all have good days and bad.

We think about the times when we were especially happy, perhaps a wedding day, or the birth of a child, or a special day out, birthday or holiday and sometimes its easy to think that life has a few special times and lots of boring days in between.

But what if every day could be a happy day? – what if we could find pleasure in all our day to day routines?

Ok you’re saying, but I have to go to the supermarket - how can that be happy?  Take a look around you at the supermarket, its clean and bright – there are wonderful foods from all over the world for you to choose from. You have money in your purse to buy enough to make a delicious meal for you to enjoy with your family. Perhaps even enough to buy a bar of chocolate to sit and enjoy with a cup of coffee when you get home and have put all the shopping away.

Ok, so I have to do the washing – how can that possibly be happy?– think how lucky you are to have a modern machine that does most of the work for you, water on tap and electricity to make it work,  how lovely and fresh your clean clothes will be and how satisfying it will feel to put the freshly laundered clothes away in the wardrobe.

Housework – free workout and think how you’ll enjoy the results of your home feeling clean and tidy

Gardening – fresh air, exercise and the wonder of nature all around you

Cooking – the chance to be creative and make yourself and others happy with a wonderful meal

Getting the idea? 

Slow down and find the happiness in the every day routines and you will find more joy in your life.

be happy to be successful

For all those workaholics – or those who have a partner who works all hours- this may be something of a revelation – its not being successful that makes you happy – its being happy that makes you successful.

Scientific studies (putting people into a positive or negative frame of mind and then testing their reactions to different situations) show that people in a positive frame of mind tend to

• Talk to others more – and  to reveal more information about themselves (the self-disclosure necessary for forming close friendships
• Be more interested in leisure activities – going out for a meal, having a party or going on holiday
• Get more pleasure from social interactions
• Get on better with other people, resolving conflicts and collaborating rather than competing
• Help others more  and being more generous with time and money
•  Feel healthier and feel less pain
• Be more creative –thinking with originality and an open mind
• Have more confidence in their own abilities

So perhaps as well as striving for more success we should all work on being happy – and just see what happens……………..