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Randy Peyser:
The first part is that you must be true to yourself, because a lot of people live their lives as a lie.

Randy Peyser, author of the book Crappy To Happy

They're living somebody else's dream or maybe it's their parents' dream, what they should be doing, what society expects of them, instead of really going for what they really want.

And Randy says you need to be very deliberate in the way you live each day.

Instead of being at the effect of everything that's coming at you, because there's plenty of stuff coming at you, you declare what you will have in your day. When I'm going through a difficult time, I say, "Okay, today I want a day filled with peace." Or, "Today I want a day filled with a magical surprise." "Today I want a day filled with…" Fill it in and you'll be really surprised when you start declaring what it is you want in your day, how that is going to show up more and more.

Being a happy person doesn't mean being happy every second of every day. In fact, Randy says you have to feel sad in order to be happy.

One of the things that I say is, "Sorrow digs the well and joy fills it." And in order to really have happiness in one's life, one must feel all of their feelings, even the most difficult, because the deeper I've found that I can go in my sorrow, the greater capacity for joy, I've discovered.

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