<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/chriswidener-07.jpg" width="110" height="135" alt="Chris Widener - motivational speaker and author" class="alignleft size-medium" />Happiness. The pursuit of so many. In fact, we are known in America as those who live for &#8220;Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.&#8221; But so many seem without happiness. Why is this? Is happiness truly elusive or do we simply not know how to take hold of it? It is my contention that happiness is yours for the taking. That is, anyone can be happy if the choose to be&#8230; and if they know how to get it. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2019/08/happiness-is-yours-chris-widener/" title="Permanent Link: Happiness is Yours for the Taking By Chris Widener" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":3460,"date":"2019-08-20T19:58:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2020-12-17T17:44:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:44:33","slug":"happiness-is-yours-chris-widener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/08\/happiness-is-yours-chris-widener\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness is Yours for the Taking By Chris Widener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/chriswidener-07.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"135\" alt=\"Chris Widener - motivational speaker and author\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/>Happiness. The pursuit of so many. In fact, we are known in America as those who live for &#8220;Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.&#8221; But so many seem without happiness. Why is this? Is happiness truly elusive or do we simply not know how to take hold of it? It is my contention that happiness is yours for the taking. That is, anyone can be happy if the choose to be&#8230; and if they know how to get it. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/08\/happiness-is-yours-chris-widener\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Happiness is Yours for the Taking By Chris Widener\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}