5 Simple Steps to Happiness by T.D Jakes
Photo Credit: Steve Harvey Show
On a quest to be ridiculously happy? Bishop T.D. Jakes, one of America’s best known faith voices, is sharing his personal formula.
On a Tuesday episode of The Steve Harvey Show, the 57-year-old Dallas preacher shared 5 simple steps to happiness.
Own Your Own Happiness
Your kids are not gonna make you happy. Your spouse is not gonna make you happy. Your big house is not gonna make you happy. Own your own happiness and be responsible for doing those things that bring joy into your own heart.
Challenge Your Own Story
People torment themselves by how they see their life. They’ve told themselves a story as if it were ‘the’ truth, when it is really a perspective truth.
Sometimes you’ve narrated a story that you beat yourself to death with. Challenge your own story. Change the way you talk to yourself about who you are and what happened to you, and what you’re gonna do in your life.
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Make Relationships Count
Nature teaches us, there is no fruit without relationships. You cannot be fruitful by yourself, in business, in home, in life, in church. I don’t care what it is, you are no more than the relationships you surround yourself with. So make sure that those are good ones.
Balance Work With Play
You can’t do all of either one and be successful and to those whom much is given, much is required.
If you work really hard and you’re a really diligent person, make sure that you do some play to balance your life out. If you play real hard, but you don’t work very much, you’re gonna be fun, but you’re gonna be hungry.
— T.D Jakes
I simply LOVE every one of these key steps!! What about you? Let us know in the comment section below.
Xoxo,
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