50 Ways to a Happy Life by Just Be

1. Let Go of Expectations
Our expectations of how others should treat us can cause us untold stress and pain. When we let expectations go, it will see us free from disappointment.

2. Learn to Accept
We cannot and should not control everything in life. Acceptance of self, others and life situations is essential if we want to live a happy, healthy life.

3. Release Dependency on Others
When we depend on another to make us feel happy or to give our life meaning, we miss out on our own unique journey.

4. Control your Thoughts
Most of our stress is born, not from our life situations but the way we think about them. Choose your thoughts wisely.

5. Judge Not Judging another will only serve in making you fearful of others judgments towards you; which in turn will make you afraid of doing, saying or being anything. 6. Stop Procrastinating Don’t put off today what you can do tomorrow. Time goes by too quickly. Don’t waste life thinking about what you could be doing and just do it. 7. Be at peace with criticism Trying to go through life avoiding criticism will only stop you from doing what you are meant to do and becoming who you are meant to be.

8. Change not another nor let another change you
Allow yourself or others to be who they truly are. Trying to mold another into being the person you want them to be, or changing oneself to please another takes away life’s opportunities.

9. Don’t Take it Personally
If another judges, criticizes or treats you, it is not a reflection on you but on them. Just because another thinks you are wrong does not make them right. Allow others to have their opinion but don’t let it be the voice in your head.

10. Stay Unique
With everyone trying to fit in, originality is rare. Give yourself the gift of being a one-off original.

11. Never Give Up
Good things aren’t meant to arrive overnight and we have little appreciation of that which comes easy. If you want something and believe in it, keep striving towards it, no matter what your age.

12. Leave the Crowd Behind
We are each here to enjoy our own exclusive life experience, following the crowd stops you from having it.

13. Collect Experiences not Treasures
The only thing we get to take with us when we leave this body is our knowledge and experience. Our possessions stay behind.

14. Abandon the Fear of Failure A failure is simply a learning experience to teach us how not to do something in the future. When we learn something, through failure, it is a valuable gift that only we can give ourselves. 15. Believe in Yourself Believe in what you want to do, not what family wants of you or society expects you to do. If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will. 16. Embrace Success Have confidence in the fact you are successful and you always will be! 17. Love What You Do and Do What You love When you are happy in your work, success will follow. 18. Don’t Place Your Worth on Your Appearance Youthful looks will fade in time but the beauty within continues to grow. Embrace who you are and not how you look. 19. Take Responsibility for Your ActionsLive life believing karma exists. 20. Create the Change You Want To See Don’t wait for someone else to do it first. Be the answer you’ve been waiting for. 21. Treat Everyone as an Equal No one is better than another, no matter what their wealth or status. Believing we are better or lesser than another leads to grandiosity or lack of self-worth. 22. Listen to Others Most are not listening, they are simply waiting for their chance to speak. When we allow ourselves to really hear what others are saying, we expand our own consciousness. 23. Take Not Revenge It is not up to us to punish others for what we consider bad behavior. When we treat others badly, or push them away, to teach them a lesson, it will always backfire! 24. Remember You Have Freewill It is your life, you do not have to do anything you do not want or choose. 25. Allow Yourself to Give and Receive Love Opening your heart is not a sign of weakness, it’s a show of strength. 26. Let Go of Pain We wouldn’t hold on to a burning coal, so why allow painful emotions to burn within our body. 27. Don’t Allow Rules to Stifle Creativity Rules should be seen as guidelines, be a rebel and break a few. 28. Step Out of Your Comfort Zone Daily If you want to grow in life, do something each day that makes you squirm. 29. Stop Waiting For another To Complete you The only person who can make you complete is you. 30. Learn to Be on Your Own Learning to love one’s own company makes the journey of life into an extraordinary expedition. 31. Like Yourself If you don’t like yourself, you won’t respect yourself and if you don’t respect yourself, no one else will! 32. Keep Your Self-Talk Positive It is the key to a happy, productive life. 33. Eat What Nature Intended Genetically modified and chemically laden foods have no right being inside the human body. For lasting health and happiness keep your diet clean. 34. Nurture Body Mind and Spirit They are connected and only when all three are balanced can we find harmony in life. 35. Free Your Voice and Learn to Say No If others do not want to respect your right to choose, that is their problem. No matter what you do, you will never please others most of the time, so you may as well please yourself all the time. 36. Remember Your Friends One of the biggest regret of those on their deathbed is losing touch with old friends. You cannot make new ‘old friends’. You will rarely make friends like the ones who have been in your life for the long hall, don’t forget them. 37. Free Yourself from Childhood Issues The child in you lived, but got through those difficult times, don’t let the adult be punished by them. 38. Let Go of Resentment Why let another’s actions blight your life? Being filled with resentment towards others makes you bitter. Let it go. 39. Control Anger Our anger only serves in punishing us, not the ones we are angry with. 40. Help others to help themselves Instead of telling others how to do it, show them by example. 41. Lose the Need to be Right Wanting to be right, just makes others wrong. Value others opinions. 42. Question Everything Don’t believe everything you read, hear or see. If it doesn’t feel right, chances are it isn’t. 43. Give Without Expect of Return Doing nice things for others without expecting anything back, sets the spirit soaring. 44. Stop Throwing Pity Parties Talk and think like a victim and be a victim. 45. Strive For Many Life Experiences Keep your life energized with a new experience every day. 46. Why Wait? Go and Get It If you want something, find a way to get it. Don’t leave your dreams as a thought. Step out there and create them. 47. Respect the Elderly We will all be old one day. 48. Find Your Passions How will you know what they are if you don’t seek them out? 49. Select Acquaintances Wisely You become who you spend most time around. 50. Choose Happiness We have a choice how to feel. For a joyful life make the decision to feel happy each and every day!