The Five Indispensable Elements of Lasting Happiness

The desperate quest for true and permanent happiness has being a huge desire for everybody across all walks of life, regardless of age, social and financial status. Many people have made tremendous achievements in various field of human endeavour but found true happiness a distant mirage. What many people failed to understand is that true happiness is not something we can sought for outside ourselves, it is conceived right from within ourselves. True Happiness is within our reach. Lasting happiness is never achieved by chance, it is a crowning product of our constant effort. Striving to make our life better through our conscious endeavour and deliberate responsible acts while engaging consistency, commitment and willpower is one of the most reliable path to long-lasting happiness. Here is a list of the some of the indispensable elements of happiness everyone must instil into their lifestyle and everyday life if we desire to stay and remain happy.

1. Health and Energy: Health and Energy combined is arguably the most important element of a healthy life. Without wellness and buoyant energy in our daily life, we can never experience true happiness. We constantly do our best and work hard to achieve it. It is until when you experience a high-level of pain-free health and a continuous flow of energy that you feel truly happy. Many times, our health can be referred to as a deficiency need, which means we do not think about our health until we are deprived of it. Applying discipline and willpower to achieve and maintain high level of health and fitness is essential for everybody.

2. Happy Relationship with other People: Our relationship with other people contribute significant portions to our level of happiness. Good relationship and interaction with people fosters happiness while unhealthy relationship with people breeds rejection, hatred and frustration and unhappiness to many people. Aristotle asserted that ‘Man is a social animal’. We are created and bound to function in a society living and working with other people at every stage of our lives. Your ability to enter and maintain high-quality relationship with your spouse, children, friends, colleagues, and others is the true measure of the quality of your personality and the level of your mental health. People with high level of self-esteem and self-respect gets along better and have much happier lives.

3. Find a Meaningful and Fulfilling Work and stick to it:

To be truly happy, we have to be fully engaged with life. You must be doing things that keep you active and give you a sense of fulfilment. If you are making a living, you must be doing work you enjoy, do well, and for which you are well-paid. People feel happy only when they feel they are making contribution of some kind and that they are putting in more than they are taking out. One of the most important responsibilities to yourselves is finding the right job for yourself and when you find it out your whole heart and self to it.

1. Find your Financial Freedom:
   One of the greatest distress to we constantly experience are those of loss, failure and poverty. Everyone fear being destitute and needy, dependent on others for their finances. One of the chief responsibilities to yourselves is to work towards financial independence and financial freedom throughout your lives. The happiest people are people who have nothing to worry with regards to money. This is not something you can leave to chance, it requires your deliberate and purposeful action and tremendous self-discipline to achieve.

2. Self-Actualisation:
   This is the ultimate feeling that you are becoming everything that you are capable of becoming. This occurs when you feel you are realising more and more of your true potential. Self-actualisation is the highest fulfilment of one’s potential. It is the most rewarding feeling any human can ever experience. It is the crowning achievement of all human endeavour. Without self-actualisation, we can never experience a true feeling of happiness, satisfaction and personal fulfilment in life. Self-actualisation is the personal guarantee that everything we do with our lives worth the effort. It is the inner feeling of peace and serenity, the very success every soul crave for. Self-actualisation is certainly the ideal thing everyone should strive to achieve in a lifetime both professionally and personally.