How to Hold Onto Happy When Life Tests You | #41
How to Hold Onto Happy When Life Tests You | #41 Daily Dose of Dawn 🌞
Holding onto happiness isn’t about pretending life is easy—it’s about learning how to protect your inner world when it isn’t. In this Daily Dose of Dawn, Dawn Super shares how she learned to stop handing her happiness over to exhaustion, chaos, emotional triggers, and lifelong challenges, and how the simple reminder that happy matters helped her reclaim her power, even when everything felt like it was falling apart.
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You know how it goes… you’re in a great mood, everything is going right and then bam, something comes along to test you… and you fail.
This used to frustrate the bejesus out of me.
I realized as I was shooting the video of this Dose that this is episode 41 about Happy Matters, and I was 41 the first time I knew what real happiness felt like – like a wink from my unconscious mind. Good stuff.
They say “happiness is a choice,” so why do we struggle to choose it? That’s what I’m talking about today – what can we do when it feels like a struggle to choose happy.
A long time ago, I had a co-worker I found very frustrating. I would be in a great mood until they clocked in. I remember listening to a video – the speaker says, “If they would just go over there and behave the way I want them to behave, then I could be happy!”
I thought, exactly! She gets it! But… she was being sarcastic lol.
Did you ever ask yourself the question… “If happiness is a choice, why am I handing over my happy to every little inconvenience?”
The truth, for me… was my circumstances. For 41 years I didn’t think I had the ‘right’ to be happy because my life was a dumpster fire rolling down a hill… no joke.
But that was a lie I was telling myself. Maybe you know what I mean? How can I be happy when ____. Fill in the blank with any number of things that come with living a challenging life.
Especially when things do what I call ‘avalanche’ and you start having health, relationship and financial issues – or the like - all at the same time. I needed to figure out how to dig my way out of that. I knew what happy felt like and I wanted to hold onto it!
Here I come with my “mindset magic” phrases that I love to create for myself so that I can repeat them I call them that because in many ways, they feel like magic.
If you’ve followed me for even a minute you know I’ve lived with four decades of sleep deprivation and this affects so much of my brain and the way it functions. I need to help myself as much as possible so I created little tools – and other people like them, so I share them!
It was the simplest thing that helped me really become someone who understood and could live ‘happiness is a choice’ – just two little words… Happy Matters.
Happy matters so much I trademarked it… Because I needed the reminder too. The sleepy, the symptoms, the finances, the relationships - kept trying to jump in between me and happy. I promised myself that I would never let myself forget that happy matters.
During the filming of this Dose, I had a meltdown after reading the last sentence lol. My original trademark application had problems and the ‘fix it’ notice came right in the middle of my life falling apart – so I had to let it go. My brain decided that was really sad and I started crying without even thinking about it at all. I recorded the aftermath because a lot of people watch my content and think I’m doing way better than they are – but I’m a blubbery mess quite a bit lol. I often have to just hit PAUSE on life, love myself through the tears. Thanks, narcolepsy!
Ok – back to it…
When I’m sad, when I’m frustrated, when I’m just out of energy – I look for it. I remind myself it’s all around me and all I have to do is give myself PERMISSION to let it in.
Will this work for you? Only way to find out is to start practicing it.
If you imagine your mood like a battery – letting someone else control it is essentially giving them your battery. Hold onto your personal power by always choosing what mood you want to be in and supporting yourself until you reach it… giving yourself grace along the way.
We need these reminders – our lives can be chaotic and challenging, staying on our own side is easier when we expand our thinking. We listen to thought leaders so we grow. We have our favorites. They help.
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No need to chase happy, it’s always there, waiting.
Just allow it… because you know it matters.
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