{"id":223,"date":"2012-06-02T10:18:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T10:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/how-to-choose-happiness\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T10:18:31","slug":"how-to-choose-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/how-to-choose-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Choose Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How to choose happiness may seem strange to you. Many times we look at happiness as a feeling that comes and goes. And that certainly is a part of how happiness shows up, but there is more.<\/p>\n

I'm living proof that happiness is often a choice. It is a choice in the moments.<\/p>\n

My statement above is not one designed to give you the impression that I am superior or more with it than you. I'm not, I just discovered a secret that's not a secret at all. Here's how it works:<\/p>\n

Value the moments of each and every day. Really value the moments<\/strong>. Once you've done this you'll realize two significant things:<\/p>\n

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  1. Life is brief.<\/li>\n
  2. You don't have time to waste.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When we REALIZE that life is brief and we don't have time to waste. Things begin to turn.<\/p>\n

    A word of caution here, there will be days of sadness and unhappiness. Don't try to be the annoying positive thinker who pretends that everything is great. Sometimes we all have to do time in the dark seas. It's ok, just don't linger beyond the time necessary. Only you and God knows how long that is.<\/p>\n

    The great thing about choosing happiness is you'll become those choices. That's a beautiful place, a beautiful place indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How to choose happiness may seem strange to you. Many times we look at happiness as a feeling that comes and goes. And that certainly is a part of how happiness shows up, but there is more. I'm living proof that happiness is often a choice. It is a choice in the moments. My statement…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[866,128,861,860,862,807,808,859,75,865,863,864],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","tag-being-in-the-moment","tag-choices","tag-choose","tag-choosing-happiness","tag-decisions-and-choices","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-how-to-choose-happiness","tag-life-choices","tag-moments","tag-secret","tag-the-secret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}