You should really choose to live like that. I choose to see all the small “tickles” that life gives me, and by the fact that I actively choose to see them.

I choose to live my life forward, and I choose happiness actively every day. I choose to see positive angles in life, rather than focusing on what doesn’t work.

Time and again I have the joy to be confirmed in that I made the right choice. I’ve been contacted by the most amazing and inspiring people who enjoy my words and actions.

Can you get happier yet – yes, of course, you can! By actively choosing happiness on your own part, you will infect others. Isn’t it just fantastic? It’s as simple as that, choose to do what makes you happy, find bright spots around you and then it spreads like rings in water.

Find the place that gives you energy, and bathe in it! I dance hip-hop. Yes believe or not, a coach in her mid-40s is dancing hip hop. O)

It truly is to be “tickled by life” in abundance – to be with people who share the joy of dancing. It’s awesome to give it my all at training and then some at the tournaments.

I admit it – I’m really not the most competitive person in the world. If I did my very best on the floor, the medals become less important. I just get such an inner joy that makes me so high that it itches.

Everybody would ideally want a gold medal. Not getting one can be disappointing but not for me. If I know I have danced the best I could, I am just so “tickled by life” that everything else fades.

What turns on you energy in your life? How are you tickled by life?

Please remember that joy is infectious. O)

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Karin Ludvigsen is CEO at the coaching company Phokus in Denmark. She is a certified business and life coach. She is tickled by life by dancing hip-hop in her spare time. Feel free to contact her at: karin@phokus.dk.

Choose happiness!

Make a choice each day; choose to be happy with what comes and what has gone. There are plenty of things to rejoice about.

Do not forget the little things: Your smiling colleague. The little girl who babbles with her mother. The wind flying through your hair, making you feel like you are living. Every little thing like this is happiness smiling your way.

We want to see all of the big happy things, but remember to see all these little things; the ones we barely notice in our everyday lives.

Look around you and see the world as if you’ve never seen it before. Put the “happy goggles” on. Look at the people around you, look at the nature, look at the wildlife, look at the surroundings, see how wonderful it all is.

Can you do it?
Try!

Are you feeling stupid?
Try again!

Did you find something?
Do you smile a little bit now?

You are on the right track!

The first step is not the most difficult step, it is simply the first.

Now think of three things that made you smile or left you feeling happy today.

Write them down.
Now look at them again and recall the emotion you gained from each thing.

Now remember the three things that made you happy yesterday.

Write them down.
Look at them again and recall the emotions individually.

Then think about three things that you felt happy about during the last week.

Write them down.
Look at them again and recall the emotions you felt from them individually.

Can you see the pattern? )

It works – try it and you will see. If you do this exercise over and over again for a couple of days, you will not be satisfied with just three things. You recall even more.

When you begin, it may be difficult to find three things, but suddenly it dawns on you, that the positive experiences are queuing up on you.

You attract them and you choose to see them. Indeed, they are present all of the time, but you must choose to see them )

Why are we doing this?

The principle is that your happiness is a choice, and you can turn it on, even off, whenever you please, but you might need to practise at first. The amazing thing is that the more you choose to turn on your happiness-switch, the easier it gets.

Now, you might be left thinking: “All the terrible things happen to me, all the time!”

I know – I’ve been there!! But yet again, it is about how you handle it.

People get sick and other traumatic things happen, but you can choose how you want to move forward.

Take life in your own hands and do not let others choose your path. There will always be situations that you can not change. However, you can change how you see them, and you can change what you learn from them.

I know it might seem difficult, but believe in yourself – it can be done!

Find a bright spot, hold on to it, and don’t let it slip away from you. Find the next bright spot, see the small pleasures and make sure to really feel it in your heart. Feel it in your soul.

Laugh all that you can, see all the funny movies you love, or the ones you haven’t seen yet, and laugh. Put your pain behind you and choose life and happiness.

I have been going down this path, and I truly believe that you can do the same!

Let us choose happiness!