How to achieve a happy life...

An American psychologist said; living a happy life is a fine art which entails 10 things:

1) Do a work that you love. If you can not do that, then find a hobby that you love and do it in your spare time and reinforce it.

2) Take care of your health for it is the spirit of happiness. This means being moderate in eating and drinking, exercising regularly and avoiding bad habits.

3)  Have a goal in life, for this will give you motivation and energy.

4) Take life as it comes, and accept the bitter and the sweet.

5) Live in the present, with no regret for the past and no anxiety about tomorrow that has yet to come.

6) Think hard about any action or decision, and do not blame anyone else for your decision or its consequences.

7)  Look at those who are worse off than you.

8) have the habit of smiling and being cheerful, and keep company with optimistic people.

9) Strive to make others happy so that you may benefit from the atmosphere of happiness.

10) Make the most of the occasions of happiness and joy, and regard them as necessary to renew your own happiness.

” Enjoy today and make the most of

it; Look for things that will prevent

pain from happening before it attacks

you.”

From the book:

“You can be the happiest woman in the world”

by Dr A’id al-Qarni

The art of happiness - Pause to reflect

Excerpt from The Book " Don't Be Sad"

Do not be sad. If you are poor, then someone else is immersed in debt. If you do not own your own means of transportation, then someone else has been deprived of his legs. If you have reason to complain concerning the pains of sickness, then someone else has been bedridden for years. And if you have lost a child, then someone else has lost many children, for instance, in a single car accident.
Do not be sad. You are a Muslim who believes in Allah, His Messengers, His angels, the Hereafter, and Preordainment both the good and the bad of it. While you are blessed with this faith, which is the greatest of blessings, others disbelieve in Allah, discredit the Messengers, differ among themselves concerning the Book, deny the Hereafter, and deviate in their understanding of Divine Preordainment.
Do not be sad, because if you are, you disturb your soul and heart, and you prevent yourself from sleeping.
One of the Arab poets said:
"How often is the young man overcome with despair when afflicted, and with Allah is the way out,
The situation becomes unbearable, and when its rope tightens, it snaps, and throughout, he never thought that he would be saved."

Alphabet of Happiness!