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How to be happy?

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shibli:
Yes, i agree with you, Mr. Rumman. We should practise saying Aal Hamdulillah more and more with real feeling and meaning. The more we say it and mean it, the more Allah will bestow His blessings onto us. Al Hamdulillah. All credit, glory and gratefulness are due to Allah who is the Cherisher, Sustainer and the best to provide. But verily most of us don't understand that....

rumman:
As I previously mentioned, many people pursue goals that they expect will make them happy, but happiness isn’t always the end result. We all know people who have put everything they have into their careers—at the expense of their personal lives—only to wonder why they’re successful and still unhappy. It’s also all too common for people to be surrounded by a beautiful home, expensive cars, and designer clothes and still have less personal satisfaction with life than they had without all the “stuff”. How one to know which goals is will garner personal happiness and which won’t?
Another quick look at the list of factors that promote happiness shows that many things contribute to personal happiness; finding a balanced lifestyle so that you can include social support, personal development, physical health and meaningful pursuits in addition to career success and financial security is much more likely to bring happiness than a lifestyle where only one or two of these facets receives the lion’s share of energy and resources, to the exclusion of other important lifestyle factors.
As you set your goals, remember all of the areas of life that are important to you. Map out a detailed description of how you would like your whole life to look. Use a pie chart to represent your life, and put the goals for different areas of your life into the different ‘pieces’. Or, set goals and develop healthy habits for a different area of your life each month.

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