Are You An Eeyore Or A Tigger

This months issue of Real Simple had an article about 10 ways to be more happy and at the end of the article the author states that a lot of people think you are born either an Eeyore or a Tigger and there is no changing that. I would say yes and no. I do think that a lot of people are either or. But I believe that we have the power to make a decision to change it if we so choose. This can go either way. Think about it. You may have been a very happy go lucky person when you were younger but as life has had it’s way with you, you have become less happy. You have chosen to focus on all of the hurt, struggle, and stress of life. You may not actively choose this way of thinking but over time it does become you.

The thing is, after a while we start to identify with it. But is that who you really set out to be? None of us start that way and while we didn’t necessarily make the active choice to become unhappy, we do have an option to change your way of thinking and being. See, that’s the clincher right there. You have to change. You have to stop being critical of others. You need to stop looking at life through dingy glasses. I’m not saying to wear rose colored glasses either. What I think would be the best choice is to look at life through a pair of clear glasses so that you can see the true nature of things. That’s when life will start to change a bit. Learn to start taking stock of your life and seeing all of the actual good that is in it and then you will see that it’s not so bad and things are actually going your way.

Years ago I got a tattoo of Tigger pouncing on Pooh. Even in my “unhappy” days I identified far greater with being a Tigger than I did anything else, I just lost my bounce for a while.