Optimism Attracts Amazing Benefits

Always look at the brighter side of things and don’t let the small things and events upset you since they actually don’t count much in the larger scheme of life, advocates Jeanette Saldanha.

- Jeanette Saldanha.

NO one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. Do you want to wake up joyful every morning, jump out of bed with enthusiasm, excitement with a thirst for life irrespective of your circumstances? Everybody wants happiness! Yet only a few really find it. Why is it so difficult to find joy and happiness? That is because most of the time we look for it in the wrong places. You want bigger homes, luxurious cars, fancy vacations and more of everything. Rise above desire and the object comes to you. Fix a greater ideal.

Another way of adding value to life is by reaching out to others. Singer and actress Rachel Jones suggests that we can reach out to people who are in the same season of life as us, or those who are in a different season of life from us. When the young find support and a sense of camaraderie with other youth, it builds them up. When the young reach out to the old, disabled or the sick and find value in others, they are also adding value to their own life. The joy that comes through adding value to another’s life brings us a deep sense of satisfaction.

Life is precious and your only duty is to live it joyfully. Our brain is like a computer processor. It has a finite amount of processing power or intellectual resources that can be used at a given moment. understand how your mind and body react to different situations so that you can develop skills to keep stress at bay. Also, learn to recognise the difference between the things you can change or the things that you need to accept. However, some psychological habits consume such huge amounts of intellectual resources that they diminish our cognitive capacities.