Finding happiness within ourselves is the key to long-lasting happiness.

If you’ve researched enough on how to be happy, this is no big news to you I’m sure.

But exactly how do we find the happiness which everyone is referring to… this happiness that’s supposedly already inside us?

One way is by taking out the trash. In the book and movie The Way of The Peaceful Warrior, the master tells his student to “take out the trash.” The trash is all the crap inside our heads that gets in the way of us realizing the potential and significance of each and every moment. Sometimes we forget that we have the ability to choose peace and happiness for ourselves. We get so caught up in the process of being right or understood; we forget that we have the ability to choose happiness and that in fact, the key to how to be happy lies within us already! [Read more…]