Happiness is a Choice You Make Every Single Day

Simone Knego
6 min readMar 17, 2023

In the Jewish religion, the month of Adar is considered the month of happiness.

Adar is the sixth month of the Jewish calendar, and it usually falls in late winter or early spring.

According to Jewish tradition, Adar is known as the month of happiness because it was the month the Jewish people were saved from destruction in Egypt, and it welcomed in a new season of miracles.

It is said that when Adar enters, joy increases.

Since we are well into the month of Adar, I wanted to take a moment and write about happiness.

Happiness is a choice.

This is something that I can’t emphasize enough. We have a choice every day to determine the direction of our lives.

While we can’t choose everything, we can certainly choose most things. And one of those things we get to choose every single day is our mindset.

We can choose to be happy, or we can choose to be miserable. It really is that simple.

Now don’t get me wrong, I understand that life can be really challenging. And outside factors sometimes affect our ability to choose happiness. And sometimes, happiness may seem like an unreasonable expectation.

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Simone Knego

Simone Knego is a bestselling author, international speaker, TEDx speaker, and mother of six. She's won several literary awards and summited Mt. Kilimanjaro.