1. The Powerful Habits
Happiness

2. “Happiness is the meaning and the
purpose of life, the whole aim and
end of human existence.”
- Aristotle

3. These habits will not solve all your problems and make you happy all the time from now on, but it
contains some of the pieces that I believe are most important for living a happy life. Those pieces,
or habits, can help you to feel happier a lot more and help you to handle challenges in your life.
But to gain the benefits you have to implement the advice consistently. You have to live it.

4. Habit # 1 : Choose Happiness
The first thing you must do is to choose happiness. Just like misery. Both of them are optional. As you use
these techniques you start to realize more and more how much you can affect and choose your own
happiness. Just like tying your shoes choosing to be happy is a conscious choice. You choose each
day what you focus on and how you interpret your reality.
“Most people are
about as happy as
they make their
minds up to be.”
Abraham Lincoln

5. Habit # 2 : Keep Your Focus on What You Want
What you think about most of the time you see around you and become. If you see the world and
yourself through a lens smudged by negativity then you’ll find much misery. If you look outwards and
inwards through lens brightened by positivity you’ll find much to be happy and appreciative about.
So being happy or miserable is seldom so much about the external circumstances at the moment.

6. Habit # 3 : Be Grateful for What You Got
Just appreciate the weather, your friends and family, the food in front of you, your roof and clean
water, your awesome shoes and the cute wo/man that just walked by. Yeah, it might seem a bit silly.
But just doing this for two minutes really works well to turn a sour mood into a more positive and open
one. Do this whenever you feel down or like your focus is in the wrong place.

7. Habit # 4 : Use Big and Written goals
By setting goals, writing them down and posting them on a wall where you can see them every day
you can keep your focus steadily on what you want instead of what you don’t want out of life. I would
also recommend setting big goals, not reasonable ones. Suddenly, I felt uncomfortable but also
excited. My mind started to spit out solutions to help me reach that goal.
"Happiness is not
in the mere
possession of
money; it lies in
the joy of
achievement, in
the thrill of
creative effort.”
Franklin D.
Roosevelt

8. Habit # 5 : Ask Yourself Useful Questions
This is a powerful way to refocus if you slip or to find even more clarity in what you choose to focus your
time and energy towards. Here are two great ones. 1) Is this useful? By asking if something is useful you
can stop yourself while heading down a negative path. What is awesome about this situation? Your
mind starts to accept that you can indeed find something good in just about any situation.
“Very little is need
to make a happy
life; it is all within
yourself, in your
way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius

9. Habit # 6 : Choose an Environment of Happiness
Your environment has a big influence over you. You are in it every waking hour so you need to
be proactive and create an environment that supports your happiness and habits. Being a bit
ruthless and cutting out as much of the negative influences and busywork makes your mind
clear, uncluttered and focused.

10. Habit # 7 : Socialize with People that Lift You Up
Some people tend to drag you down. Some people may be kinda indifferent. Some people tend to lift
up you up and support and motivate you. Focus on spending as much of your time as you can with the
third group of people. It will be very hard to live a happier life if the people you hang out with the most
always are negative and complain about everything.

11. Habit # 8 : Create an Action Habit.
I admit, it’s not always easy to take action. It can be scary and difficult. But if you don’t take action
you’ll be missing out on most things. Including many moments, people and experiences that can
bring you a lot of happiness. If you don’t create a habit where you take a lot of action you won’t get
a lot of results in real life.
"Happy people
plan actions, they
don’t plan results.”
Dennis Waitley

12. Habit # 9 : Use a Morning Ritual
You simply set up a routine in the morning that you do as soon as you wake up. This works so well
because what you do early in the day often sets the context for your day. As humans we have a
strong tendency to want to be consistent with what we have done before. That’s one big reason
why a bad start often leads to a bad day and a good start often leads to a good day.
"Twenty years from now you will
be more disappointed by the things
that you didn’t do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch
the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

13. Habit # 10 : Do Things Even If You Don’t Feel Like It
Your inner voice and feelings can be disregarded if you like. You can do whatever you want to
do anyway. Just do it. The more you get into habit of doing this, the easier it will become. Focus
on and take responsibility for the process, not the potential results. Take responsibility for showing
up and doing your workout.

14. Habit # 11 : Be Here Now
Tomorrow isn’t here yet. Yesterday has passed. Now is the present moment. And all three of them are
always the present moment when we are living in them. So much time is lost by thinking compulsively,
over and over again, about things we have little control over. And it distracts us - blurs our vision and
shatters our focus - and keeps us from fully enjoying what is really the most important time. Now.
"The secret of health for both
mind and body is not to mourn for
the past, nor to worry about the
future, but to live the present
moment wisely and earnestly.”
- Buddha

15. Habit # 12 : Help and Make Other People Happy
When you do the right thing and make people happy you feel good about yourself. When you make
someone else happy you can sense, see, feel and hear it. And that happy feeling flows back to you.
And since the Law of Reciprocity is strong there is another upside. People will feel like giving back to
you. So focus on giving happiness instead of zeroing in on receiving it. It’s better for everyone.
If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.
- Chinese Proverb

16. Habit # 13 : You and Your Relationship with Yourself
Now, increasing the love and value you give isn’t only about other people and what they give back.
By doing positive things for other people you start to see yourself as a person who is better and more
deserving of more love, good things and happiness in life. This is essential to avoid self-sabotage on
your path to more success and happiness in life.
"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to
others, you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

17. Habit # 14 : Don’t compare yourself to other people
One thing that can cause quite a bit of unhappiness is comparing yourself to other people and their
lives. You compare cars, houses, jobs, shoes, money, relationships, social popularity and so on. And
at the end of the day you create a lot of negative feelings within. And perhaps also outside of
yourself. This won’t help anyone.
"If men would consider not so much
wherein they differ, as wherein
they agree, there would be far less
of uncharitableness and angry feeling
in the world.” - Joseph Addison

18. Habit # 15 : Compare yourself to yourself
See how much you have grown, what you have achieved and what progress you have made towards
your goals. This habit has the benefit of creating gratitude, appreciation and kindness towards yourself
as you observe how far you have come, the obstacles you have overcome and the good stuff you
have done. You feel good about yourself without having to think less of other people.

19. Habit # 16 : Do What You Love to Do
When you do something you love you don’t have to push yourself so much. You keep going because
you like doing it, not just because your want to reach some goal (although that can be exciting too).
Taking action also becomes natural when you doing something you really want to do. A lot of the time
you can’t wait to get going with it.
"Success is not the
key to happiness.
Happiness is the
key to success. If
you love what you
are doing, you will
be successful.”
Albert Schweitzer

20. Habit # 17 : Explore Yourself
What activities make you feel the happiest? What activities that you do make time just disappear? You
may also want to think back and explore your past. If you are really busy with life – family, long hours at
work etc. – then what were the things you used to do when you were younger and had more free time?
And what things did you have a talent for or what skills have you developed throughout your life?

21. Habit # 18 : Let Go
We often carry with us a lot of stuff. Not in our hands perhaps. But in our minds. It can become like you
are carrying half the world on your back. Not very helpful. So you need to let go of things. Not only to
move lighter and more freely. But also to be able to fully move forward in life. Letting go enables you
to drop irrelevant stuff and makes the choice to focus on the stuff that bring you happiness easier.
"When I let go of what I am, I become
what I might be.” - Lao Tzu

22. Habit # 19 : Give Up “Being Right”
Realize that you may cling to things because they might make you feel right as you replay an
argument or conflict over and over in your mind. It gives you a certain sense of satisfaction as
the other person is wrong. But you have to give up that kind of satisfaction to move on. Accept
it. Then let it go
"We need to learn to let go as easily as we
grasp and we will find our hands full and
our minds empty.” - Leo F. Buscaglia

23. Habit # 20 : Change Your Life by Changing Your Bad Habits
Changing a habit is a lot of mental effort. Don’t try to do this all at once. Focus on one habit at a time for
30 days or more. It may seem slow and I understand that it’s easy to get wrapped up in the enthusiasm
and the hope that you will give your life a total overhaul right now. Nothing wrong with that. You won’t
be able to keep it up until your new habits are established and stable.

24. Stick to the path of applying these habits as much as you can in your daily life. Not only will the
habits themselves help you. Because when you actually live habits like these, when you do what
you know deep down is the right thing then you also raise your self esteem and you feel that you
actually deserve good things in life. This is a big factor for increasing your happiness.

25. "Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.”
- Benjamin Disraeli
Thank You Very Much
Sompong Yusoontorn