In this article I am going to talk a little bit about myself and how I view being happy for someone else's success. To me it seems very counter-intuitive to be very happy for someone else's success. If you are the type of person that tends to be negative about your own success then you may have found it very easy to become depressed when you see yourself at the top of the corporate ladder or the CEO spot. I find that when I am very happy for someone else I am also very happy for myself. It just seems to make sense.
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When we are very happy we find that we don't worry as much and our energy level is higher. When we are very depressed our energy level is lower and we worry more. Happiness has been proven to increase happiness, so if we are more happy we find that we have less stress.
I can give you a personal example. A couple years ago I was laid off from my job. It was very difficult for me and my family because we were literally on our own. I had lost my previous job and we had to learn to live paycheck to paycheck. I had a very difficult time finding things around the house that were worth buying and it was even harder to find things around the neighborhood that I could buy that we could cook.
We decided to start to put things around the house that were nice to look at. My daughter now is in her teens and she decided one day to ask me if I would like her to help her with her science project. I was thrilled to see her face when she asked me. We spent many evenings cooking and cleaning up the mess from her project and it became very fun for us. We never complained about being happy for someone else's success.
I also started to be happy for the things that were going on in my life. There was a really good man that I had been dating for over twenty years and he was finally getting serious about getting married. Our relationship had become so important that every time something went wrong with him it made me so happy. I would do anything for him just to keep our relationship happy. He understood that and it turned out that he moved in together the following year.
If you were to take a look at my life right now, I am sure you will find that it is a lot less sad as it used to be. I am very grateful for the things that I have and I am also very grateful for the man that I have. Being able to share my success with others has brought me a tremendous amount of happiness. I feel that I have served others well all along and now I can share even more.
Do not allow yourself to continue to be unhappy. The sooner we can bring more happiness into our lives, the sooner we can move on past the sadness. There are some really great things going on in my life right now and I feel like I have achieved a lot more than I ever could have on my own. There are also some really good people that I am helping. It feels good to help make other people happy and having the satisfaction of seeing their lives turn out as well as it is turning out for me makes life so much better.
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You too can have the same kind of happiness that I have. It does not take much to get us moving in the right direction. So many people keep telling us that we need to have more success in our life, but it is often us that need to hear this most. Start taking things seriously and use what you have learned here to move forward in your own life and soon you too will be happy for someone else's success.