I\u2019ll be happy when ____ happens. I\u2019ll be happy when I have ______.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be happy when _____ loves me.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be happy when I look like _____.<\/p>\n
The \u201cI\u2019ll be happy when\u201d trap is one of the easiest to fall into. I know because I have fallen into myself far too many times.\u00a0 For me it usually starts with \u201cI\u2019ll be happy when I lose 10 pounds.\u201d Sad, but true.<\/p>\n
I am finally to the point in my life where I realize that I have most likely already hit my halfway mark of my time here on this earth, or close to it if I live to be 84.\u00a0 And gosh dang it I just can\u2019t afford to wait for some external thing to make me happy!\u00a0 I need to be happy now.\u00a0 Every day. \u00a0Heck, the last thing I want to do is be an 84 year old woman waiting to lose that proverbial ten pounds so she can be happy!\u00a0 That would be straight up ridiculous!\u00a0 Can you imagine?!?!\u00a0 Yet that is exactly what will happen if we don\u2019t make a CHOICE to be happy now! \u00a0So stop worrying about the \u201cif this\u201d, or \u201cwhen that\u201d and stop letting those be an excuse to hold your happiness back!\u00a0 It is time to unleash the happy :)\u2026<\/p>\n
It\u2019s time for all of us to stop falling into the \u201cI\u2019ll be happy when\u201d trap and start choosing to be happy RIGHT NOW!<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a terrible thing always to be waiting for tomorrow, always depending on tomorrow, always excusing our today’s because we are sure that only in the future will we possess the things that will fulfill us.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Don\u2019t wait for tomorrow. Don\u2019t wait for the right job, the right house, the right salary, the right dress size. Be happy today. Be happy now.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Joseph B. Wirthlin<\/p>\n Now gosh darn it \u2013 GO BE HAPPY!<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ll be happy when ____ happens. I\u2019ll be happy when I have ______.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be happy when _____ loves me.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be happy when I look like _____. The \u201cI\u2019ll be happy when\u201d trap is one of the easiest to fall into. I know because I have fallen into myself far too many times.\u00a0 For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[168,501,500,46,251,449,63,504,159,282,873,3513,3515,3506,3428,3507,3512,3511,7,30,76,3505,55,180,3501,2188,3508,598,3516,464,64,35,1026,1132,3509,3514,27,1168,3503,1188,1913,3510,3504,3502],"class_list":["post-4342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adversity","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-balance","tag-be-happy","tag-blessings","tag-choice","tag-choices","tag-decide","tag-decision","tag-dont-wait","tag-dress-size","tag-earth","tag-excuse","tag-external","tag-fulfill","tag-fulfilled","tag-future","tag-gift","tag-goals","tag-halfway-mark","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-ill-be-happy-when","tag-if","tag-internal","tag-job","tag-joseph-b-wirthlin","tag-joy","tag-life","tag-love","tag-now","tag-old-age","tag-ridiculous","tag-salary","tag-self-confidence","tag-stop","tag-then","tag-tomorrow","tag-trap","tag-waiting","tag-weight-loss","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}