Happiness and success are the two primary goals for mankind in this time and age. Since both of these life goals are interconnected as people who are happier and more content with their lives are more likely to be successful and the ones who are successful have a greater likelihood of being happy, the pursuit of one is almost destined to bring you the other. All you need to know is the track that makes your pursuit worthwhile; a path that leads straight to the destination of success and happiness.

If you look around yourself, you’d be able to see a whole lot of people who are happier and more successful than you. But have you ever stopped to wonder what is it that makes all the difference? What are you doing wrong, or what is it that they are doing differently that enables them to be closer their life goals than you are? If so, then you have landed on the right page.

A careful analysis of the lives of such people who have been successful in achieving the goal of happiness in lives has enabled us to extract a few common attitudes which play a defining role in bringing their life goals a lot closer to them. The good news for you is that these are the attitudes that are easily adoptable and are guaranteed to produce the same results for you as well if you put your effort into practicing them with diligence.

In order to put you on the right track to happiness and success, therefore, we have highlighted the five top attitudes which have been tried and tested to have an impact in determining whether or not you ‘d be able to live a happier and more successful life. Without further ado, let’s take a closer look at our list.

 

 

Meditation And Mindfulness – Sounds Familiar?

There is no argument over the fact that mental clarity is of utmost importance for anyone who is in pursuit of happiness and success. If your mind is too clouded with the thoughts that trouble you through the night or distract you enough to ruin your productivity through the day, then it is going to be that much difficult for you to achieve your goals of happiness and success. As such, your search for the aforementioned should always start with the strategies which can help you achieve mental clarity.

Meditation and mindfulness are ancient practices which were originated in the times of Buddha and have ever since been in practice among the people of various cultures. As per the evidence, meditation and mindfulness are known to collect your wandering thoughts, prevent overthinking about the past or the future, and bring you back to the here and now. By clearing the disturbing thoughts, it helps you relax and cope with the day-to-day stress and anxiety, all the while stimulating the release of happy hormones including the endorphins, adrenaline, serotonin, etc. Just a few minutes of medication and mindfulness every day can offer mental clarity that induces happiness and enhances productivity throughout the day.

 

Acceptance Is The Way To Go

If there is one thing that distinguishes the happier and more successful people from the rest of the flock, it’s their [restrict] habit of accepting reality. They are the ones who accept things for what they are. Truth is, if you are too focused on what happened or what could be, you have the recipe of disappointment, stress, anxiety, depression, and an overall unhappy and unsuccessful life at hand. Think about it, if all of your time is being invested in thinking about the embarrassment or guilt of the past, are you going to be left with any time that you can invest into fixing things?

Successful people understand the importance of time and accepting reality. Rather than whining about things and what could happen, they train their minds to be focused on their available resources and getting the most out of them. Instead of thinking about how amazing their lives could have been if a certain event did or didn’t happen in the past, they choose to analyze how they can still make their lives equally worthwhile with alternatives.

The same principle applies for such people when it comes to accepting themselves. They seem themselves for who they are, work on improving their strengths and put an effort into minimizing their weaknesses. Their acceptance of themselves is what derives their sheer confidence for matters concerning the quality of their lives.

 

Who Do You Like To Hangout With?

Believe it or not, you become what you spend the most time with. You can tell yourself all you want that you are just trying to have a good time with these people and you have no intention of becoming permanently like them and that you are totally in control of shaping your own personality, but if you are spending a lot of time with the wrong company, it is only a matter of time that you will end up becoming just like them.

Think about it, has it ever happened to you that you went to a funeral with tens of people having tears in their eyes and spent an hour in the sad, gloomy environment but came out all refreshed with a surge of happiness? It wasn’t because the people and your environment have control over what you feel. Not to advice you against attending the funerals, but you can certainly avoid spending time with people who have nothing but negativity to bring to the table. We all know people like such, people who have a habit of finding something wrong in every situation, regardless of how positive it may have been apparent.

The more you spend time with negativity, the harder it will slowly get for you to find happiness. Similarly, if you currently have a social circle comprising of people who are not passionate about their life goals or don’t have ambitions in the first place, you can take it for granted that they would never be able to do anything for you to achieve yours. On the other hand, if you have friends with ambitions, you’d be able to have intellectual discussions to keep you motivated and inspired for your own life goals. It gives you an opportunity to listen to and share the experiences with your social circle that translates directly into personal growth and development. This is how your company can put you on the right track in pursuit of happiness and success.

 

It’s All About The Balance

It’s unfortunate that a lot of us fail to realize that it is in fact “happiness” that gives meaning to success in your life. More often than not, success is defined in terms of financial stability. While that may be true to some extent, do you think it’s worth chasing financial growth if it eats up all of your time and leaves nothing for your family, hobbies, entertainment, adventures, and the other components of your life?

In the simplest of terms, it is a misconception to entitle someone with success on the basis of how much money does he make regardless of the measure of happiness that he is able to extract out of it. Your assets can only be spelled as just that; your assets. They can’t be defined in terms of success unless there is a component of happiness associated with it.

The point being, for a happier and truly successful life, you have to focus on maintaining a balance between your personal and professional life. It’s a virtue to work most diligently when you are at work and present the best of your creativity and productivity, but it is also important to determine a specific number of hours that you will be working each day while the rest of it will be spent on your family, your hobbies, and the things that you really want to do. Take a walk with your family in a park, go out on that dinner date, watch a movie with your friends, listen to your favorite music, read a book that you’ve meaning to for so long, do whatever it is that refreshes your mind, recharges your battery, and prepares you better for the next day. It’s important to keep your work as a part of your life and not drown yourself under its burden so much that your life starts to revolve only around your work.

What’s more, is that you need to find sufficient time for a good night’s sleep as well. Lack of sleep has the potential to make you irritated and just grumpy in general that is counterproductive for your happiness and consequently success in the long run. Regardless of how busy you are, your goal should be to get at least 6 to 7 hours of peaceful sleep every night.

 

A Pinch Of Positivity

Lastly, happy and successful people have a whole different outlook on life and everything therein. You’d be amazed to see how well they have trained their minds to see positivity in almost all aspects of life. This is one quality that enables them to see the silver lining in the worst of scenarios. The reason why they are happier or more successful is not that they are superhumanly skilled or talented to have never made a mistake. The sole reason is their inherent capacity to learn from their mistakes. They understand the importance of failures in being the best tutor for self-growth and development. They are not the ones to beat themselves up for years for the mistakes or failure that they go through; rather, they learn from them, improve themselves, do better the next time, and keep the show going on.

As such, persistence can be thought of as indispensable to achieve happiness and success in life. It is the “Can Do” attitude of such people that keeps them from giving up. With a pinch of positivity, they are able to keep their spirit high and be motivated to try again unless they succeed in achieving whatever it is that they are after.

For a happier and successful life, it is important that you show gratitude for what you have, even if you are confronted with problems. Once you learn to keep your eyes set on the bigger picture and how everything that is happening to you in the present is actually shaping and strengthening your personality, and preparing you better for the time to come, you’d be able to be grateful and content with your life, both of which are the essential ingredients to find happiness and success.

 

Finale Note

As evident from the information mentioned above, happiness and success are the two goals of life which are very much in your power to achieve. You just had to know the way that leads to them. The people who are already living these goals are not any different from you. They don’t have bigger brains; neither in size nor in capacity. They have the same body, the same organs, and the same 24 hours to live through every single day. The difference is only in the way that they choose to live and see life.

Now that you are familiar with the top attitudes of happy and successful people, it is time for you to put an effort into adopting these attitudes so that you can begin to experience the same outcome as well. It must have already dawned on you how simple these attitudes are to practice. It’s just that in all of the hustle and bustle of life, we sometimes fail to realize their importance and end up being ignorant of them.

But not anymore. It’s time that you got the most out of your personal and professional life by adding the flavor of happiness and success. Start making the above-mentioned attitudes a part of your life and you’d be able to see the difference for yourself. [/restrict]