Happiness: A Mindset

As we started the year 2013, people everywhere wished others a Happy New Year. Even though we may know some people that seem either unwilling or unable to escape their pessimistic view of life, most of us yearn to be happy. While we may  wish for good health, a good job with a prosperous future along with good relationships, these basic desires can be even more challenging if we are not happy. Here are a couple of quotes from Dale Carnegie:

“Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions; it is governed by our mental attitude.”

“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”  

I guess you could say that the concluding observation is that we can be as happy as we want to be. Perhaps, appreciating what we have rather than what we don’t have is one step forward in that direction, looking no further than the end of our nose.