- Oprah Winfrey
In my research on happiness, one of the happiness strategies that I discovered was to celebrate and celebrate as often as possible. Just like with gratitude, research has shown that at the end of the day if we can find 3 things that happened that day to celebrate, we will be happier. In order to celebrate we have to focus on the positive and find some way we were successful that day, even if we have had a bad day. The theory is that if you go to bed a success, you will wake up the next day a success. It sets the tone for the day.
While I am not a fan of Hallmark holidays, maybe there is something to them. Frequent celebration will promote happiness. Depending on which survey you look at Mexico, Puerto Rico, Columbia and Nigeria rank high in the happiness rankings for the nations of the world. These nations are not known for being prosperous, secure, peaceful, highly educated or even healthy. According to one article I read, one of the common elements the happiest nations in the world have is frequent, enthusiastic community celebration.
Based on my post Embrace Failure, I think we should not only celebrate success, but we should also celebrate failure. By celebrating failure, we are celebrating the fact that we pushed the envelope and tried something outside our comfort level or expertise. Thomas Edison lived by this philosophy. He considered every one of his failures a successful discovery of a way that would not work. He also believed that just because something did not work how he expected, it did not mean that it or the attempt was useless. He celebrated each one of his failures as a success.
Celebrate your
Bright Star Dreams
If you are interested in world happiness rankings, I found two surveys that ranked happiness by nation.
- The World Database of Happiness: http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/
- World Values Survey Happiness Trends: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/happinesstrends/
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