Happiness is of the mind. Happiness is a choice.

What is happiness?

Happiness is being in a state of joy, contentment, and having positive emotions. It's also said that happiness reflects on how good the individual in question feels about life. Yet, in today's depression is on raise with youth having a constant feeling of sadness, emptiness, and even question the purpose of life.

This begs the question of what does happiness means to you? Do we put our happiness on things that we can't control? Being happy is a decision that we have to make for ourselves. We attach too many factors to our happiness in today's world. 70 years ago, having basic amenities and food without war is enough to create a happy environment for a family. What has changed over the course of time? Social media is the answer. Social media hasn't made it easier due to the pressure it piles on youth. Often people feel less of themselves due to the success of others shared on social media. Other reasons include social media anxiety, social media trolls. Social media isn't the only thing that has changed during this time.

People in today's world don't get to do their passion. We are slaves of today's economy. For financial reasons, most people don't get work in their field of passion. This stops or at least put fear into people from trying to work in their field of passion due to the fear of failure hence they stick with work that can foot the bills. This makes us prisons in our world by our making.

Most people attach their happiness to different factors such as love, money, friends, and groupie to name a few. Happiness is shouldn't be dependent on these factors hence you might never feel happiness. Happiness in your life should be all about you.

To be happy...

To be happy means being your true self, finding contentment within the life you are living, having positive emotions and joy. Always remember that happiness is a choice and that choice is in your hands.

Importance of self-worth

Now that you have worked on accepting yourself for who you are, you can begin to build love and care for yourself. Make it a goal to extend yourself some kindness, tolerance, generosity, and compassion. As you can see that to achieve self-worth you have to build love, so begin to increase your self-love, start paying attention to the words you use with yourself. Commit to being more positive and uplifting when talking to or referring to yourself.

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Self-respect is another essential quality to increase or develop a higher level of self-worth. As noted above, it’s just sufficient to encourage you to work on your self-esteem. Do you know that one other reason why healthy self-worth is important is that it can positively affect your relationship.

And also, your intelligent emotions of self-worth helps you to trust your own judgment and make better decisions, which are vital leadership skills that can help you advance in your career. Similarly, in your work place, self-worth can give you the confidence to run meetings, support other team mates and have greater self-sufficiency at work. It equally gives you the maximum confidence needed to influence an interviewer’s decision or motivate one in getting task done in the utmost standard at workplace leading to bonuses or pay raise. Let us not forget that to be confident does not come from emptiness, however, to achieve confidence is by being prepared through knowledge and/or skill updates. Furthermore, our words should match with our actions so as to gain respect and avoid attacks from our critical inner voice this how to build self-confidence and maintain a healthy self-worth.

Finally, you have learnt that you need to love yourself, become better at it and then love other people. Individuals with high level of self-worth no longer rely on other people to make decisions for them or live their life for them because they understand the value of self-worth and how to build the self-worth while overcoming the self-esteem.