Is Happiness Truly a Choice? Yes! Here’s How to Change Your Life

Connie Ragen Green
7 min readApr 25, 2024
Connie Ragen Green — Is Happiness Truly a Choice? Yes! Here’s How to Change Your Life

Time teaches us a few lessons that may be difficult to accept. The biggest is probably that the most important, wonderful, and influential people in our lives will sometimes be taken away from us. Older folks will tell you that you never get over the pain of losing a loved one. You try to focus on all that person’s great memories and good qualities.

In other words, you choose to focus on good things rather than obsess over not having that person in your life anymore. You make a choice. Instead of reacting, you take a proactive approach. You act on the memory of that person positively rather than negatively.

Another Choice You Can Make in Life Is to Be Happy or to Be Sad
Most of the Time

The earlier in life you can figure this out, the better. This knowledge doesn’t come to everyone. You may know someone who doesn’t realize that happiness is a choice. Some people live their entire lives embracing negativity and believing that the world is out to get them.

Let’s imagine for a second that you are that type of person…

Nothing good ever happens to you. If it does, it’s by pure chance. Life will certainly return to its old routine of knocking you down and kicking you while you’re there. Every person, thing, and…

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Connie Ragen Green
Connie Ragen Green

Written by Connie Ragen Green

Online marketing strategist, author, speaker, and publisher working with entrepreneurs on six continents. https://Linktr.ee/ConnieRagenGreen

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