What is your Happiness Index? On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the most, how happy do you feel most of the time? My sister asked me this the other day. She caught me by surprise cause my sister is a speed talker and she doesn’t usually give me a chance to contribute meaningfully to our conversations. The most I can do most of the time is to humm and haw whenever she has to stop talkeing to take a breath. I am exaggerating just a bit may be but I was actually quite surprised that my sister asked me the question on Saturday after our customery dinner at mom’s place. I searched internally and felt congruent with an ’8′ as my answer. I could think of a few things that held me back from blasting out a perfect ’10′ so I erred on the side of being conservative.
If she had asked me that question 6 months ago I would have said 4 because I felt absolutely miserable at that time. When I hit bottom way back in the Summer time, I knew I had to do something to break myself out of that rut. It wasn’t that the roof was falling down or I had some incurable disease to combat 6 months ago, it just that I had it in my mind that things have to be perfect before I allowed myself to feel good let alone happy. That attitude contributed to the majority of my misery for way too long. I was at the end of my rope and I made myself a promise that I would do whatever was necessary to turn that around. First thing I did was booked a session with Franco Dinicola for a spiritual healing. I recognized that I could not solve my own issues cause I am too close to it. Next thing I did was booked a vacation with my family. Spending time with my family away from distraction is very grounding for me. It was particularly satisfying because I took my kids to see my 2 Aunts and Uncles in San Francisco and Oregon in the US. I have not seen them for quite a few years and saw family members whom I’ve never met before. It was an amazingly gratifying experience to see my extended family, to see how each has created their lives and realize that I have full power to create what I want in my lfe. Third but not lastly, I’ve enrolled in a whole slew of workshops that helped me to gain invaluable insights into the real nature of life. I have a completely different perspective on what reality really is.
It took for me to hit rock bottom to get the message that I don’t have to wait until life is perfect to be happy. Being happy is a choice that only I can make. When I choose to be happy and commit to do whatever it takes to get there, I can only succeed. What is your Happiness Index figure and what are you willing to do to be happy?