June 10, 2009
Keep talking happy talk to make your dreams come true.
Talk about things you'd like to do.
You got to have a dream,
If you don't have a dream,
How you gonna have a dream come true?
In his This I Believe essay, entitled Happy Talk, Oscar Hammerstein wrote about the importance of happy people talking about how they are happy. He observes that the unhappy person is far more talkative than the happy one. Marcus Buckingham, Gallop pollster and author of the book Now, Discover Your Strengths agrees. He talks about how we are so attuned to finding what is wrong and routing out what is weak, that we do not even have a good vocabulary for strengths or positive traits. Yet, it turns out that happiness thoughts are one of the fastest and most powerful ways to increase our feelings of happiness.
If you doubt the power of happy words, try this simple exercise. You may find that you can increase your feelings of happiness in just 5 minutes!
Another way to help increase your happy talk is to be more aware of all the words we use to express happiness. As Marcus Buckingham points out, we are so focused on our negative feelings, we forget our happy words. Here is a list of happy words to help get you started.
Keep Talking Happy Talk to Make Your Dreams Come True
Affirmation
I use happy talk to inspire myself and others
Journal or Meditation Question
What are my favorite happy words and phrases?
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