I bet if you are like me, you always thought that happiness was just something that happened. Kind of like the weather: If it is sunny—good, if rainy—well, too bad!

I hadn’t asked for it, but one day a close member of my family got a dreaded disease.

My world turned dark. Worry, uncertainty, fear, anger … you name it and I felt it. Still, I had bills to pay and children to care for.

The following weeks left me shaken and confused—what was I supposed to do? What could I do?

It would have been easy to give in to my automatic feelings. To surrender to those heavy dark feelings that make it impossible to laugh, want and enjoy. I could have let the tears flow and just given-up.

But too many people depended on me! How could I give up?

I knew that I, too, didn’t deserve to be miserable.

One day I asked myself the question: “Why am I unhappy?”

The cause of my suffering had been words. The doctors had said words!

I had created thoughts from their words. The result: I felt scared, confused, angry, sad, hopeless.

I thought: “This family member will die; I will be left alone; My children will suffer; My joy will be gone; There will be great pain; I will be pitied; I have no future; I will become impoverished; and so on …”

Morning and night these thoughts weighed on me: When I was in bed, when I ate, when I was at work, when I talked to others—I was crushed by them.

Then, I got it!

I realized the “news of this illness” didn’t knock me down—I caused my own downfall by what I did with those “words.”

If I could make myself sad, then I could also make myself happy.

So I changed the way I thought about this situation.

And guess what? I felt significantly better. Much, much better!

If you are sad, regardless of the reason, you don’t need to be—in fact, you shouldn’t be. Rather, you can—and should—be happy (at least happier).

If you choose happiness, you don’t immediately become happy. There are things in life that naturally cause sadness.

However, when you choose to be happy, you begin a process that over time, with a sustained effort, will lead to real happiness.

When you choose happiness, your mind starts to train itself to seek the positive and the good. When you support this choice with the right attitudes and beliefs, you can turn around seemingly hopeless situations. You really can make “lemonade out of lemon juice!”

Need help?

Smart Life System has several Modules (courses) to help you push-away sadness / depression and increase long-lasting inner happiness, and all in only 8-minutes-a-day. You get a genuine “happiness” you own and that can be used to smooth over life’s frequent disappointments and setbacks.

I can tell you from my own experience (and the reported experience of many others), when you train your mind to think in a positive way, you can become happier. It really does work.

Not sure? Even if you think this is hype; it’s still worth the small cost and effort to see for yourself if it really does work—if you can self-generate happiness. Don’t close the door on yourself—based on an unproven belief—for a chance to create something of true value.