Acting happy can actually make you happier. Rather than waiting to feel good before you act, choose positive behaviors first and your emotions will follow. Your actions shape your mind more than your mood shapes your actions.
I believe that behavior modifies feelings and thoughts and psyche. Therefore, you don't wait to do something. You're— you have to be mind-directed, not animated by a good voice of ambition. Just intellectual understanding, rational understanding. I have to do X and Y and Z. That's why my— one of my fundamental beliefs about happiness is act happy, you'll feel happy, or at least feel happier.
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