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A thought by Henry Cloud, from his book, The Law of Happiness: How Spiritual Wisdom and Modern Science Can Change Your Life (The Secret Things of God) (p. 21). Howard Books. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Yes, He has! Henry says, “. . . we are wired for a happy life—sometimes we just have to learn what that happy life looks like. “While there may be some activities in life that are in question, giving to others is not one of them. Showing acts of kindness and being altruistic are not activities we have to wonder about. If you want to increase your happiness, spend some of your heart, mind, and soul—even your money—on others. Research has shown that when people spend money on others or on charity versus themselves, the money spent on others is the money that returns happiness. Giving actually makes people happier than spending money on themselves.  Giving to others makes you healthier as well as happier. It is good for yo

A thought by Henry Cloud, from his book, The Law of Happiness: How Spiritual Wisdom and Modern Science Can Change Your Life (The Secret Things of God) (p. 12). Howard Books. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) They do, they really do. Henry goes on, “Or deciding on a direction will dictate each choice. And that direction of how we invest our lives is under our control. We all have the choice to invest ourselves in living in ways that produce happiness or continuing down a road that experience and science has shown will never fulfill us. “But it does bring up a question. If spending all of our time pursuing the 10 percent (as if it is going to be the key to happiness) does not work, then why in the world do we do it? Why do we think that ‘if I only had . . . then I would be  happy?’” He later says, “When we are not eating the fruits of the good life that God has created and think that we know what is going to satisfy us

A thought by Henry Cloud, from his book, The Law of Happiness: How Spiritual Wisdom and Modern Science Can Change Your Life (The Secret Things of God) (p. 11). Howard Books. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) And that is good to know what it shows, isn’t it? Henry says, “Here is the math: … circumstances may be contributing about 10 percent or so to your happiness. If life is going well, you get a lift, and if life circumstances are not so great (other than times of great tragedy or trauma, which can bring a season of great pain), you get a little downturn. This is the first 10 percent of why you feel like you do.” He goes on, “The next factor comes from your internal makeup, which is probably composed of genetic, temperament, and constitutional factors. This seems to account for about 50 percent of your happiness level. (1) Go to any infant nursery, and you can almost see the different levels at work. Some babies are happ