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Making You Smile – Troubleshooting Your Way To Happiness

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Making You Smile - Troubleshooting Your Way To Happiness

How do you troubleshoot happiness? What does it mean to be happy? Is happiness based on choosing to let the positive out way the negative? Is it our attitude that makes the difference on whether we are happy or sad?

Making You Smile Troubleshooting Your Way To Happiness

How do you troubleshoot happiness? What does it mean to be happy? Is happiness based on choosing to let the positive out way the negative? Is it our attitude that makes the difference on whether we are happy or sad?

Happiness is a feeling of satisfaction, well being, and definitely peace of mind. Being happy is all about yourself. Good example, happiness can mean staying healthy, happiness can mean working the job you spent years going to college for, happiness can mean exploring your favorite hobby, or happiness can have deeper meaning such as watching your children succeed in life. What is your source of happiness?

Making U Smile has a few troubleshooting tips for achieving happiness:

Music - Music turns your mood quickly, almost instantaneous. Physically, emotionally, mentally as well spiritually music changes your inner self. Music comes in many forms but regardless of what genre you like to listen to the beautiful uplifting notes can take you away from your troubles. Can you relate to a song to an era in your life? Think about how songs take you back to what you were doing when you heard your favorite song back in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's? If you are looking for those songs try Time Life.

Laughing & Smiling- How often do you laugh and smile? What makes you laugh? Funny TV shows like "America's Funniest Videos" or better yet "30 Rock" are setting couch potatoes up for laughter. Local venues like the Arlingtondrafthouse and DCIMPROV go the extra mile to entertain with comedy for the right price. Comedy could just be the medication you need to break the ice and wake your inner soul to the idea that happiness is a state of mind.

Wake your inner soul to the idea
that happiness is a state of mind

Help & Support- Living is giving. The feeling of sincerely helping someone through a crisis or just mentoring someone who is in need will help you feel satisfied and appreciated. Allow people to help you just as much as you give help. Mentoring and donating your time to a charitable organization is a very good way to build on your positive attitude.

Practice gratitude- Don't we forget sometimes that we need to be grateful for the things we already have, we strive so hard to move forward with achievements and acquire new things that it is easy to forget at times. Remember the important things you have now, family, friends, memories of past events, and the knowledge you possess.

If you received a million
dollars would it really bring
long-term happiness?

Hobbies- Do something you love, hobbies and activities are a great way to enjoy yourself as well as take your mind off situations that can be stressful. Whatever you are passionate about or have a natural interest in needs to be developed. Demands and pressures of work, family, and various situations usually consume lots of free time. Make sure to schedule in your hobbies.

Recognize beauty- From Museums, inspirational stories, poems, libraries full of books that inspire. What do you see as beautiful, could it be flowers, a manicured lawn, and great works of art? Surround yourself with things you deem beautiful.

If you received a million dollars tomorrow, would it really bring long-term happiness? Could making you smile be as simple as the smell of fresh spring air, laughter in children, or a cozy feeling from the warmth of the sun? Happiness could come from the achievements you make from using Smart Goals. The way you feel about life has more to do with your attitude. What do you do to make yourself smile?

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MakingUsmile is a blog dedicated to inspiring people to create positive change in their lives and to give something whether it is to inspire, motivate, or provide tech tips. On my daily grind I am many things, a tech guy, manager, mentor, and a coach. This blog is my effort to share my knowledge on a wider scale.
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Thank you for making me smile!

  • alwaysjules Aug 31, 2011 @ 11:59 am | delete
    Positively positive. I spend a lot of my time looking where hope lives, and I found so much of it here. What a great way to approach life.
  • sushilkin Apr 26, 2011 @ 8:27 am | delete
    Like your lens! Thanks for sharing !! Contribute your like at PRAY FOR JAPAN for the sake of universal brotherhood !
  • kathysart Mar 28, 2011 @ 12:09 pm | delete
    HUGE smile! Thank you!! Happy day, Kathy
  • dellgirl Mar 1, 2011 @ 12:09 am | delete
    Wonderful lens, so full of inspiring and helpful information! Thanks for sharing.

    5 stars and thumbs up, I'm joining your fan club.Thanks for visiting me and joining mine.
  • Retro_Loco Feb 28, 2011 @ 1:51 pm | delete
    What a wonderful lens! Thank you for creating a lens with such a positive message! I hope more people discover this lens and create happiness in their lives. Positive attitudes are contagious. I think this lens deserves a blessing from a Squid Angel -- I sure hope it gets one! Stay positive and stay happy! ~Vicki~
  • crazycuriosity Feb 21, 2011 @ 6:53 pm | delete
    Nice Lens. My hobbies make me happy and it is a way for me to tell how well I am doing. If I am depressed I can't concentrate.
  • Jewelsofawe Feb 20, 2011 @ 7:39 pm | delete
    A million dollars would make me happy, yes! Although I am basically happy already without my millions...Nice lens! Blessing it!
  • Norma_Budden Feb 6, 2011 @ 11:46 am | delete
    There is a vast difference between happiness and joy. I would prefer to feel joy because it doesn't change because of circumstances. Happiness, however, is temporary and fleeting - it comes and goes like the tide, totally dependent on circumstances. Admittedly, some people will maintain a feeling of happiness longer than others but, essentially, it doesn't stay around permanently.
  • StephenC Dec 31, 2010 @ 2:39 pm | delete
    To your happiness in the new year! Nice lens.
  • bretts Dec 30, 2010 @ 7:21 pm | delete
    Anyone that has reached a state of permanent happiness, please tell me how you did it!
    We could never understand how beautiful and joyous happiness can be unless we felt the opposite now and then.
    I wept over something that hurts me today. Yet I was able to feel gratitude and peace.
    I am only human, and this is the ride I am on.
  • greenspirit Dec 30, 2010 @ 7:42 am | delete
    Being happy is a matter of choice. I find that happiness exists naturally, and really has nothing to do with material events. You have the choice to experience happiness or buy into what you think the world is telling you.
  • vallain Dec 29, 2010 @ 2:37 pm | delete
    Squidoo is my hobby and working on it makes me SMILE. I'll never run out of things to work on here. It's a hobby that doesn't cost me anything and actually makes money for me. That makes me smile too.
  • clouda9 Dec 29, 2010 @ 1:01 pm | delete
    Yeppers smiling is a good thing...I've even faked it a time or two and then forgot why I was frowning :)
  • skiesgreen Dec 28, 2010 @ 9:52 pm | delete
    Nice lens on a positive note to happiness. featured this lens on motivation
  • darciefrench Dec 28, 2010 @ 2:22 pm | delete
    Releasing negative programming brings about the naturally occurring state of happiness/joy -:)
  • GrinningFool Dec 17, 2010 @ 10:21 am | delete
    There is always something worth smiling about. Just need to learn to find it and see past the bad things and focus on the positive.
  • artyfax Dec 8, 2010 @ 2:17 am | delete
    some very good advice, must try to take it in large doses - thanks
  • Tempus Dec 8, 2010 @ 2:11 am | delete
    Great lens - as the song lyric says 'You're never fully dressed without a smile'
  • sideways1 Dec 1, 2010 @ 10:28 am | delete
    Thanks for the reminders, here. We all need this. I'm on the internet too much. I need to get out more, and experience people face to face. Volunteering is a great way to do that.

    Chris
    www.squidoo.com/what-determines-a-wines-price
    www.moosevalleywinery.blogspot.com
  • Marijoyce Nov 30, 2010 @ 10:22 pm | delete
    Great lens. I believe when you change the way you think, which takes work but can be done, to a more positive outlook and count your blessings more often than you focus on what you think you lack can help increase happiness. And, like you said, comedy helps me a great deal (I love 30 Rock by the way.)
  • Jellyrolldesigns Nov 30, 2010 @ 4:33 pm | delete
    Being with my family and love ones make me smile. A great lens to happiness!
  • TamaraKajari Nov 13, 2010 @ 4:43 pm | delete
    Today a little bit of hobbies, tomorrow some new CDs and it'll be a smiling week-end:-) Thanks for these mood boosting lenses!
  • ClassyGals Nov 9, 2010 @ 1:38 pm | delete
    A good glass of wine usually helps me find happiness after a long day.
  • dc64 Nov 3, 2010 @ 12:20 pm | delete
    I love how you put recognizing beauty as a way to happiness. It truly is.
  • blue22d Oct 30, 2010 @ 7:36 pm | delete
    Nice lens. Music always help me if I feel down. I love all kinds of music.
  • CCGAL Oct 27, 2010 @ 5:18 pm | delete
    I enjoyed this lens. Wanted to let you know, though, that your favorite link isn't working - the html code is wrong, and is trying to make www.makingusmile.net into a squidoo lens. Hope this helps!
  • Tipi Oct 21, 2010 @ 10:05 pm | delete
    Well done, you've got me smiling right now! When I was pregnant with my first son, my doctor told me to smile a lot and I would have a happy baby. I did and he was!
  • Camden Oct 20, 2010 @ 9:46 pm | delete
    Great suggestions! Things like music and laughing really do lighten your mood...exercise also works well for me.
  • VickiSims Oct 20, 2010 @ 9:22 pm | delete
    I'm smiling after reading your lens. Lots of good thoughts and ideas.
  • ZablonMukuba Oct 18, 2010 @ 10:15 pm | delete
    thanks for helping me to smile
  • celebrate Oct 17, 2010 @ 7:12 pm | delete
    I am going to turn on some music right away. Thanks for the idea...It is so simple, but effective.
  • ohcaroline Oct 17, 2010 @ 6:25 pm | delete
    Good stuff. Smiling is so good for your heart.
  • Ladymermaid Oct 16, 2010 @ 11:30 am | delete
    Ah such good advice ... made me smile to see it here on Squidoo :)
  • SueM11 Oct 16, 2010 @ 7:55 am | delete
    A smile can make so much difference to how others look at you. I find a smile will make others to respond more positively towards you.
  • Oct 15, 2010 @ 11:21 pm | delete
    I'm constantly amazed at the difference a smile can make. Smiling with genuine warmth is completely contagious.
  • awakeningwellness Oct 15, 2010 @ 3:31 pm | delete
    My dogs always make me smile, walks in nature, music...great ideas!
  • JoyfulPamela Oct 15, 2010 @ 2:50 pm | delete
    Music is my favorite smile maker, but these are all fantastic ideas! Thanks for sharing them. :-D I'm adding this to my "Be Joyful" lens.
  • BarbRad Oct 14, 2010 @ 2:15 pm | delete
    I have found music or going for a walk help lift my mood. So does finishing a lens
  • rachsue Oct 12, 2010 @ 8:58 am | delete
    Music has always worked for myself as well. You can never smile too much!! Thank you for sharing
  • capriliz Sep 30, 2010 @ 12:39 pm | delete
    I do use music to help change my mood. The right kind of music can also be a big help when I trying to stay on track with my "to do" list. For some reason, I find that I can actually focus much better.

    Good article with plenty of things people can try implementing to see if they help.

    P.S. Lost rules, not 24! (lol)
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