Happiness Producing Rational Beliefs

1. Don’t blame others for making you unhappy. Take responsibility for making yourself happy.

2. Give yourself permission to make yourself happy— even if in doing so, others make themselves unhappy.

3. Make time for yourself to do things which bring you pleasure and enjoyment in the short-term.

4. Do things for others and your community without expecting anything back in return.

5. Sacrifice short-term pleasures and put up with short-term discomforts in order to achieve longer-term gains.

6. Accept the fallibility of others and yourself.

7. Don’t take things personally.

8. Take a chance even when you might fail at things at work or in your personal relationships.

9. It doesn’t matter so much what people think about you, and what you’re doing.

10. See uncertainty as a challenge— do not be afraid of it.