9 Signs a Person Is Really Happy With Their Life

Genuine satisfaction is so much more than a smile on your face.

Sinem Günel
Personal Growth
Published in
9 min readMay 10, 2021

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Happiness is a vague concept. We all want it, but we don’t want to do much to get it. Instead, we believe it’s something that should happen without much effort.

The truth, however, is quite different: Happiness doesn’t happen. It requires effort. And that’s probably why negative feelings across the world have been rising, even before the pandemic.

From 2010 to 2018, negative emotions such as worry, sadness, and anger have been rising by up to 27 percent globally.

The American economist Jeffrey Sachs even states that we are in an era of rising tensions and emotions.

The good news, however, is that we can widely influence those emotions. Additionally, we can learn from those who seem to lead happy lives and adapt their positive habits to our own reality.

Just because the phone is ringing doesn’t mean you have to respond

Genuinely satisfied people aren’t reactive. They are calmer than the average person and they make decisions based on their intuition, not on external stimuli.

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