Joshua's Happy Song

Sunday I took my son to the movies to see Troll's.  It was so cute, funny, and had a great message about choosing to be happy.  Yesterday my nephew entered into a new chapter in his life, one that his mom has fought for, for a while.  My nephew started a new school, one that would help him improve his educational experience.  As he prepared to enter this new journey he set his own alarm clock, got himself dressed, woke my sister up, and was ready for his 6am bus without anyone's assistance.  Why is this so important you say, because prior to this change my nephew fought my sister to go to school, hated school, and had mentally and physically shut down.

The struggle was real, but this day HE CHOSE TO BE HAPPY!

This made me think of the movie Trolls, in it Poppy, the main character, talks about choosing to be happy and if you want to find happiness you have to look within.  Happiness is a feeling that we already have inside of us.  

How many times have you been in a miserable situation for so long that you've just mentally shut down?  Physically stopped trying?  We have to fight for our dreams, fight to improve the quality of our experiences, and fight to change, but first we have to identify the source of our unhappiness and take the steps to change it.  

We are the keeper of our own energy, our own happiness, our own breakthroughs, our own destiny.  You don't like it change it, you can't figure out how-ask, you don't trust anyone- look at your own behavior, you're mad-forgive, you're hurt-heal, you're in pain- take the band-aid off  and breathe again!  It all starts once you make up your mind.  Once the mind shuts down everything else follows.  So to change your environment you have to change your perspective then fight for what is already inside of you...HAPPINESS!

My take away- WE ALL HAVE CHOICES IN LIFE-CHOOSE HAPPINESS OVER EVERYTHING ELSE!

xoxo The Mentalist