Why I choose Happiness

Hey readers 

I understand that life for many can be tough and I understand that when you feel like your world is crashing down before your eyes or you are going through a difficult situation it can be a challenge to see a positive or remain positive I get it I have been through it. 


So as you know there are positive emotions and negative emotions and most people will feel certain emotions at different times when they experience different situations and that is ok. Why I choose to be happy is because I can't live my best life when I feel sad or emotional and life is too short to be miserable. 


So I feel that the environment that we put ourselves in and the people we surround ourselves with can be more important than what we had for breakfast and what the gossip magazines said. If we surround ourselves with positive people and do the stuff that we want to do but also what we have to do then we have no other choice to be happy. 

Growing Up for me was tricky I am not going to lie or sugar coat it, I grew up in a household where both of my parents worked jobs with long hours they provided me with all the things that parents provide food, shelter, love and support. So I also grew up in 2 countries going back and forth was fun being told that I was going to Ireland for a holiday Using Australia as our base country was good. However, when my parents came back to Australia I would probably see then 2 hours during a weekday. During the holidays my parents hired a nanny and her name was Julie she would look after me EVERY holiday with the exception of when we went to Ireland. So like I said in my last paragraph your environment can sometimes dictate your state of mind and the people you surround yourself with can be good or bad for your health. 

So my Nanny was an extremely jealous person she could NEVER and I mean NEVER see past her square, her bubble whatever you want to call it. So how do we combat jealousy? how do we learn not to be negative and suck up all the venom? How do we grow up in a positive environment when we are parenting ourselves? 

One day I decided that enough was enough and I cut her right out of my life. it felt like the weight of all this negative energy that I had been carrying had been lifted right off my shoulders. So at 15 years old, I asked my parents if I could go and do something at the time which was right out of my comfort zone which was Muay Thai so before this I was into art and quiet activities I had done a few sports but never really found one that I liked or One that I thought was for me. So my dad's first reaction to this idea that his daughter wanted to do this sport was ok, and we signed up to take classes at the local gym (being a minor my dad had to sign the waiver). Now I had a lot of doubters, a lot of people thought that I wouldn't last a lesson. But this was when I learnt what it meant to be truly happy, At the time I had 3 years of being bullied from the high school that I was at from my whole year at school and was on my 4th year. So the first day I went the owner of the gym at the time said that I looked like a fish out of the water and that probably the best thing for me was to do some personal training lessons to A) build up my confidence and B) to get my technique he was right. So in the 2 weeks before I started pt lessons my dad would go over and check out the facilities and he got to meet the trainers beforehand. So On the VERY first day of Muay Thai personal training, my coach (now who is the owner of his own gym where I go to) Alex and I met he took me through the basic movements of Muay Thai and we did some fitness drills too. My dad asked me at the end if I would come back and I said yes I really enjoyed the lesson. So as the weeks went on Alex and I developed what is now known as a coach and client relationship he tortured me every session and I developed a mental toughness that I had never had before my brain flicked a switch and instead of thinking negative thoughts I started to realise that If I change my thinking its not hard to be positive. So, Muay Thai and Alex, I guess changed my life forever. because the environment that I choose to be in which is a highly positive and motivating one made me happy I chose to be happy and the thing is that i believe you as my reader can too :) 

cheers x