By Marie C. Barrett
Happiness and joy are not as elusive as you may have thought. Go ahead and dare to dream of delightful possibilities for your life. Discover how you actually design your own life and choose a path that leads to happiness and joy.
If someone were to ask you this question: “If money was not an issue, what would you like in your life?” What would be your answer? When you dare to dream of love, joy, satisfaction and fun you will begin to hone and accelerate your skill in creating what you want.
Let’s delve into the idea of manifesting what makes your heart sing and how you can be happy and full of joy this very day.
How do you create what you want? How can you manifest happiness and joy? Is it possible in the real world or are happiness and prosperity simply elusive and imaginary joys, relegated only to the dream world? Of course you can enjoy happiness, satisfaction and personal fulfillment in your life, and it need not be difficult.
Let’s return to the question: “If money was not an issue, what would you like in your life?” Take a few moments to think about this. Now choose three things you would like to be, try or want to experience to increase your joy, happiness and personal satisfaction. For the sake of this exercise, keep it simple but measurable.
Close your eyes now, and imagine a future time when these three things, presently still in your dream world of possibility, are actually part of your reality, your life experience. Imagine how it feels to experience these delights. Just by feeling and accepting these as your true reality, you are well on your way to manifesting real happiness and fulfillment in these areas.
Would you like to travel and see the world, experience fascinating people and places? Maybe you would like a new luxury car to boost your self-esteem. Clothes will do it for some, an entire new wardrobe of top class and stylish clothes that make you feel self confident and attractive. Maybe you would prefer a new house, a dream job, a new romantic relationship with your soul mate. Hmm. Imagine your joy and how happy and blissful you would feel as you connect with your soul mate.
If money was not an issue, you could probably come up with heaps of wonderful ideas that would make you feel fantastic and hand you happiness and satisfaction on a platter.
Well, what is stopping you from choosing just one of these things to set your sights on today? The next question to ask yourself is how urgently you want your desire. You will need to ramp up the energy behind your dream if you are to manifest it into your life.
Energizing your deep desires is the subject of another article, but for today, chose one thing you really want to achieve or have in your life and start feeling how wonderful, exciting and energizing it would be to have or be it. Put emotion and deep feeling into your vision of what you desire and know it is already coming to you. You will see it when you believe it.
If you doubt your power to create your reality, you will still create your reality, but this time, it will be one in which you cannot manifest your desires because you refuse to believe you can! Either way, you will still create the reality you believe in. Choose to believe in yourself and in the power of the universe to manifest your beliefs, thoughts and dreams of happiness.
This very day you can be happy, joyful and satisfied, even while still in a place of expectation. Giving yourself something to look forward to is a first step to living your dream.
Life is not waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about dancing in the rain. Start dancing!

