Chase Jarvis Photography: Happiness is a choice (seriously – it is)

Happiness is not an accident. It’s not a state that randomly occurs when the stars align, nor a coincidence or a lucky windfall like buying a winning lottery ticket. In fact, there’s nothing random at all about happiness: it’s the natural product of our choices– small choices that all of us make every minute of every hour of every day. Yes, there are many things in life that we have little or no control over, and these may be non-trivial things like natural disasters or health crises that bring real pain, discomfort and stress. Nobody – not even the wealthiest or most culturally-speaking “powerful” among us – can control the whims of fate– but what we can control is how we react to what comes our way. I’ve always been a relentless optimist- partly because it’s my nature, but also because I make a conscious and continuous effort to maintain positivity as a core personal trait because – put bluntly – it serves my life and the life of those around me the best. As such, I’d like to put forth the pragmatic approach that’s worked for me – a simple approach built on the choice to be positive. What […]

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