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2. We can’t give away what we don’t have. We can’t make someone else happy, if we are steeped in self misery. As Abraham Lincoln said : “You can’t
help the poor by being one of them.”

We experience happiness when we are completely free from the negative and destructive emotions in life, fear, anger, doubt, guilt, resentment and
worry.

Only when we have identified the emotions that are obstructing our happiness can we focus on the work of eliminating or minimising them in our lives.

Could the key to true happiness in life really be that simple?

The answer is most emphatically YES. The major obstacle to achieving the happiness you deserve, is to be found in your attachment to the negative people
and situations that are causing it. It is important to understand at this point, the difference between mind based thinking and heart based decisions. Our wonderful
mind will work against us if we let it here. It will find no end of reasons to stay put, resist change and continue as you are. Common sense tells us that if nothing
changes, everything stays the same. If we follow the direction of our mind on this, instead of providing the solutions to our problems, our mind will keep us
trapped in the unhappiness surrounding them. The key to our true happiness lies within our hearts, in how we feel, not in our minds, where we think.

What is the key component of happiness ?

If happiness is being the true, authentic you, free to do or not to do anything in life, the key component of true happiness is experiencing that authenticity in all
the important areas of your life identified earlier in this section. Determining your state of happy authenticity in your family, love and social lives, discovering
and experiencing what makes the real you happiest regarding your levels of personal development, health and attitude and establishing your happiest levels in
your career, financial and spiritual lives.

What is the connection between happiness and truth?

So many of us wander aimlessly through life where our happiness is concerned. The majority of us are so busy merely surviving, we haven’t even identified
exactly what constitutes happiness for us. In this condition, we are at the mercy of others and circumstances. Like a ship without a rudder, we drift aimlessly
on the ocean, crashing off rocks and into other ships, until we finally reach a harbour called safety. This is not true happiness if the destination isn’t truly where
we wanted to end up, this is simply making do.

By working through the information and accompanying exercises in this project, we fix a rudder to that vessel of ours. By digging deep for the truth of your
hearts desires in the important areas of your life, you will be able to plot a course and use that rudder to steer your ship to the port of true happiness.

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