Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS:   “Happiness cannot come from without, it must come from within.”                                      Helen Keller What makes someone else ...

HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS

 

“Happiness cannot come from without, it must come from within.”

                                    Helen Keller

What makes someone else happy may not make us happy. What makes

us happy may not make someone else happy. For thousands of years

human beings have struggled to define “happiness.” No more so than

last 30 years in the United States. With so many so called “experts”

trying to tell us what “happiness” is and what we should do or be feeling.

No one can sell “happiness.” We should look at what happiness is not.

We have a better intuition for what we do not like, what causes discomfort,

or makes us miserable. But recognize the difference between real

discomfort versus the need to get out of our comfort zone. The “pursuit

of happiness” is different from the avoidance of “unhappiness”. We

may not know what happiness is or what makes us happy at any given

point in time, but we do know what makes us unhappy, what we can

do about it and the choices we make. If we start with being aware of

and recognizing what makes us unhappy then we can make the right

choices for ourselves and start building a foundation of “happiness.”

Avoiding the unpleasantries and what drags us down. Be mindful that

often in life it is the struggles or when we are pushing through something

uncomfortable that when we come out the other side, and we will, that

we feel a true sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, and “happiness”.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness

consists of. You will never live if you are constantly searching

for the meaning of life. Everything worthwhile in life is won through

struggle, effort, or plain hard work. We think we and our lives should

just be perfect. It is not. It is messy. It is difficult, but only as messy

and difficult as we choose to see it in our minds and what we choose

to dwell on. Focus on what is important to you. Your family. Helping

others. Let the rest go. Focus on what you can control. Let the rest go.

Everything worthwhile is gained through some sort of very epic struggle.

It is what gives us satisfaction from a job well done. A life well lived.

What is happiness anyway? I have heard it been said that happiness

is the joy of pursuing your life’s purpose or having purpose. What

then is the purpose? There are many purposes: family, kids, spouse,

support, so everyone is content and “happy.” Happiness is grace, joy,

poise, standing tall, doing the right thing, helping others, doing what is

right. Taking care of your mind, body, and spirit. Being the best version

of yourself at the moment. Tackling what the universe is asking of you

in the moment. Then there is the opposite of happiness. You feel bad.

Pleasure or overindulgence leads to feeling bad. We feel good with

exercise. Sleep. Reading. Learning. Resting. Meditating. A good poop.

Still not sure what the purpose is big picture? Then look at what is

right in front of you. What is your purpose for the day? What is being

asked of you right now? Focus on that. Take care of the trivial things

right under your nose. Simple acts of kindness to other people improve

our own happiness. Perpetual kindness leads to perpetual happiness.

“A person becomes happy to the same extent to

which he or she gives happiness to other people.”

                                        Jeremy Bentham

You can get the International bestseller The Shi*t I Wished I learned in College here:

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Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: SLEEP

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: SLEEP:   “Early to bed, early to rise makes a [wo] man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”                                                   Benjamin Fran...

SLEEP

 

“Early to bed, early to rise makes a [wo]

man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

                                        Benjamin Franklin

Sleep is so important not only for our body to re-charge, to recover,

to reboot our mood, to mend, to heal, to dream, to follow our body’s

clock, our circadian rhythm and our 24-hour journey around the sun.

Own the morning, get up (do not look at your phone), exercise, make

sure to watch the sunrise. Get outside. That morning sunrise is in tune

with your body’s natural rhythm. The morning light and exercise will

help your bodies release of cortisol, not only giving you energy for your

day but triggering your body’s clock to about 12-14 hours later release

melatonin, to make you sleepy to go to bed. Oh, and be sure to watch

that beautiful sunset. The true measure of a good life is a good night’s

sleep, with the person you love sleeping next to you, and a good poop

in the morning when you wake up. Your body, brain, microbiome (gut)

and spirit are in sync, in accord with nature, and if you’re sleeping and

pooping well, you must be doing everything else right during the day,

like, exercising, working hard, getting outside and eating well……

You can get the International bestseller The Shi*t I Wished I learned in College here:

 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5FMWDGW

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: THINGS WE DO NOT NEED

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: THINGS WE DO NOT NEED: “A lot of people spend good hard earned money buying things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.”                             ...

THINGS WE DO NOT NEED

“A lot of people spend good hard earned money buying

things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.”

                                        Will Rogers

Less can be more. The more stuff you own the more headaches you

have. Ask yourself, is this essential? Why do I need or desire this? We

must live for ourselves, not other people. Who cares what other people

think of how we dress or what car we drive? If we dress a certain way

because we like it, it makes us feel good or feel good about ourselves,

then that is the reason to do it. Not to try to impress other people.

Who cares? Want what you want, not what somebody else wants or

because other people will be “impressed.” Look in your closet at the

last time you wore certain clothes. Same applies to everything in life.

Put the money in investments for future use rather than buying stuff

just to impress other people we may never see again anyway.

You can get the International bestseller The Shi*t I Wished I learned in College here:

 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5FMWDGW

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER:   “It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got.”                                                   Sheryl Crow If only I had...