100 days of happiness challenge... You don't have time for it, right? Yet we have time to feed our every other need.

We eat, go to the bathroom, do our homework (sometimes?) and many other things, yet we overlook something that is so important. Our happiness is something that seems to always be put on the back burner even though it's something that should be a top goal of every single day.

Lasting happiness demands permanent changes... It takes effort and commitment every single day. Why do people not realize that mental health is just as, if not MORE, important than physical health?

If you're like me, you've treated others with more love than yourself. I've spent a lot of time overlooking the fact that I deserve to be celebrated too.

Here are some things that I began to do for pure happiness:

First, I chose to make happiness a goal. It's something that I'm going to have every day. I may not be perfectly happy every single day, things still go wrong, but I will do something for my happiness each and every day, because I deserve it.

Second, I began to take advantage of the opportunities I had to be happy by reprogramming my beliefs and values, choosing to put myself in positive environments, and I began to value my personal growth by accepting my past.

Third, I began to cultivate gratitude. I shifted away from sorrow and distress.

And one of the biggest things I began to do is foster forgiveness. I realized that feeding bad memories only makes them grow and they then begin to take up more place in your mind. I said goodbye to indignation.

I began to nurture relationships that bring me joy and I began to feel happiness from the smallest things. I felt friendships growing with people I never thought I would have a relationship with because I spent so much time indulging in my desolation that I didn't have time to appreciate all of the awesome people I'm surrounded with!

I spent a lot of time thinking that happiness was something that I was never going to have — I just couldn't. Part of me believed I didn't deserve it and other parts of me just thought I apparently wasn't destined for it because I never had it.

Then I realized it's totally something you can always have, it's just something you have to make rather than find.

So, I challenge you to do something great for yourself and that is to participate in the 100 days of happiness challenge. It can be something small like going out of your way to give someone a compliment or even taking time alone to appreciate yourself! But do something for your happiness.