How to make others happy?

We are continually looking for how to be happy. Achieving happiness seems to be the ultimate goal of our existence. But, we forgot something…

A simple way to be happy that we all have within our reach: make others happy. Let’s think for a moment… Wow! It’s not that easy, is it?

How can we make someone happy?

Our happiness

The first step, before trying to make someone happy, is investigate our own happiness. We’re happy? If so, we are on the right path but if not… we will have to modify some things.

There are certain barriers that we impose on ourselves. We can tear them down but we don’t want to, we cling to them like a wall that defends us from others and that prevents us from being close.

–The resentment: resentment causes us unhappiness. Holding anger at someone without forgiving them, despite time, will turn us into unhappy and bitter people.

–Be positive: Being positive does not mean being happy when the situation asks you otherwise. Being positive includes being able to see the good side, learn lessons and progress as people in the face of everything that happens to us, whether good or bad.

–d Turn things around: It is important to reflect, see both poles (the good and the bad) of everything that happens to us. But, many times, we worry about issues that do not deserve it and that cause us unnecessary headaches. Let’s take things more philosophically, let’s relax about it.

Steps to make another person happy

exist 8 steps we can follow to make someone happywhether it’s a family member, a friend or even a stranger.

How many times have we helped someone in need? For example, covering a stranger with our umbrella on a rainy day. How have we felt? Blissful right? Well, the other person too, in addition to being tremendously grateful. And the truth is that we have not done a great feat, it has just been a small and generous gesture but one that we will surely remember.

1. Greet

Saying hello is often a commitment, and if we are not very happy we can do it with reluctance. For that it is preferable not to say hello. Must greet with our best smileshowing off the pleasure it causes us recognize the other person and offer a sincere greeting.

It is comforting, too, greet a stranger. In big cities and big towns this has already been lost. But in villages, with very few inhabitants, there is still the custom of greeting people you meet without knowing them, out of respect.

2. Hug

Hugging or giving hugs is a feeling more than gratifying. Hugs make us feel better, and despite that we don’t give as many as we should.

3. Help

Helping does not mean donating large amounts of money, joining an NGO or going to the other part of the world to help those who need us most. There are other types of help, such as helping an elderly person cross the sidewalk, planting a tree, not throwing trash on the ground, or pushing a stranger’s car because it won’t start. This is also helping.

There are multiple possibilities to offer our help in our daily lives. The problem is that we do not see or we do not want to see. We are aware that to help we have to do great things, but that is not the case. A small gesture can make us and others happy.

4. Thank you

Thank you for everything, if they give you a place, if they let you go through a door first, if they stop you at a pedestrian crossing, if they congratulate you… It doesn’t hurt, be grateful for the small acts or words they dedicate to you In your day to day. Even, appreciate the company of a person. This will give us kindness, it will make us better people with the consequent state of happiness.

5. Listen

We all need to be heard at some point, so it is necessary that we also know how to listen. Trying to understand our speaker, knowing how to put ourselves in their place, advising them if necessary will make us feel useful and that we are helping them.

One has to really listen, without making value judgments, being sincere. You can make that person happy by being there, next to them, listening to them and truly supporting them.

6. Stay in touch

It is not necessary that we need something or a compelling reason to call someone and ask how they are. Nowadays we have a much easier time communicating with others, why not use this to make them happy?

A simple call to ask about the other person’s status, just to say hello and know if everything is okay. It will cause an increase in your happiness.

7. Gift

A designated day is not necessary. Simply, when you see something that reminds you of that person, that they are going to like, that made you remember them, give it to them! He will thank you, he will feel important to you and very happy. A sincere and selfless gift.

8. Share

If we have something we have left over or that we can share with others, let’s do it! There is no more rewarding feeling than share something with someone who needs it.