I choose to .... today!

If you want to be happy you have to be happy on purpose.  It takes real intent to be happy, when so many things around you, simply indicate otherwise. You may be struggling to come to terms with work circumstances, with relationships, or with financial concerns.  These factors may be weighing heavily on you and you may be anxious, despite the fact that you portray to others and yourself, that you are fine.  Yet you still need to show intent in the moment you become conscious to take up the banner of happiness and let it reside in your heart.   When you wake up you cant just wait to see what kind of day you'll have.  You have to decide what kind of day you will have.  Making this choice can be difficult for a whole lot of reasons, things like hurt and pain and unforgiveness and misunderstanding, can all stand in the way of your potential happiness and the quicker we enter into a new day with the intention to make today count for something, the sooner the day will become less about trying to make it better and more about experiencing it as better.  There is a conscious decision to be positive and to live in freedom each day notwithstanding all the woes and frustrations that surround us.  Take into today what makes you happy, don't stop trying to reach the dreams that make you happy even if others may think that this does not suit your life or that your responsibilities preclude you from a future such as many could only dream of.  Taking hold of a positive choice and committing to it in this phase of your life can surely only bring enormous joy, a fresh start or even a time of real productivity, passion and success.  It is easy to hang around in the place that you are comfortable but deep down there is nagging in you that this is not all that you want to achieve.  Therefore you need to be purposeful in what we want to get out of today and not forgetting your responsibilities and commitments, you can still take hold of the future that you imagine and which will be there if you decide to grasp it with both hands.