There are billions of people on our planet, and some are truly happy. The rest of us bounce back and forth between happiness and well, unhappiness depending on the day.
I’ve learned there are certain traits and habits chronically unhappy people seem to have mastered. We all have bad days, even weeks — myself included — when we fall down in all seven areas.
The difference between a happy and unhappy life is how often and how long we stay there.
Here are the seven qualities of chronically unhappy people.
1. Your default belief is that life is hard.
Happy people know life can be hard and tend to bounce through hard times with an attitude of curiosity versus victimhood. They take responsibility for how they got themselves into a mess, and focus on getting themselves out of it as soon as possible.
