Unless you’re hibernating you’ll probably cross paths with a parade rainer at some point in your day. Find out three tips to help you keep your happy despite them. And please share your tips below. If you do by June 8, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a Society T-shirt.
Written by Pamela Gail
Pamela Gail Johnson founded the Society of Happy People in 1998.
The Society is grounded on Pamela’s four key Practical Happiness Principles:
Pamela identified 31 Types of Happiness that are on the SOHP App Happiness Counter to make it easier to recognize moments of happiness.
Pamela also plans and organizes the Society of Happy People's annual happiness celebrations:
She's also a speaker, trainer, and author.
A few of her personal smile starters include her monthly book club, yoga, traveling and meeting new happy people.
I enjoyed the video and points. It’s quite right, that misery like company, so often when someone else is upset or stressed, they forget to be kind to others.
You advice about having compassion is a great idea.
The first response should be compassion, and thinking tat maybe they do not know how to be happy, or have had a bad day.
When I encounter cashiers that are not very happy or friendly, I try to cheer them up with some humour. They very much have appreciated that I didn’t take it personally and reminded them to be nicer to the customers. Usually the next person gets a much happier greeting after this encounter with the cashier.
Have a happy evening.
Angel
I’m so glad you practice compassion … makes you a little happy too, right?
Good video!
I especially enjoy the bit about compassion, and remembering that another person may not be able to be happy right now.
When we’re mostly happy people, it’s easy to forget some people can’t think happy much less feel it. Even I have moments like that occasionally – rare, but they happen.
I agree with all three tips! When you continue to be happy around those who chose to be unhappy, it tends to slowly rub off on them because they realize they do not have the power to rain on your parade.
For those people that are really not enjoying life, I think thank goodness, I only had to encounter them for a few minutes, but they have to be with themselves 24 hours a day.
Happy Tuesday!
Well, happiness is scientifically proven to be contagious. Thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you for reminding us that it’s not our job to make other people happy. I’m thrilled if they are happy, but If they’re not happy we can listen but we can’t fix their problems. I used to carry this burden that I needed to try to fix other people’s messy lives … I’m so happy to be shed of that thinking!
Trying to fix people usually makes us unhappy. The best we can do is on occasion to help … but even then the person has to want to be helped. Thanks for sharing.
I agree with the three tips. Only yourself can make you happy. People come and go and one should not rely on someone else making them happy. I have dealt with this for years with my own family. Beauty is all around us even in the simply ways ie the trees, flowers or a someone smiling. We have to find ways within ourselves to be happy.
Exactly, we can be compassionate, but not the fixer … sometimes hard for us to remember since we want everyone to be happy too. Thanks for sharing…