Welcome to Living Happy, a super short weekly encouragement sharing insights and action steps for living a happy life, where I share passages directly from my book, The Year of Living Happy.

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Don't let pride poison your happiness.

In the months following the release of my first book, Breaking Busy, I was floored by how well

it was received and all the incredibly nice things that people had to say about the book.

The whole experience was something out of a dream. The fact that I had

written and published a book was crazy enough. And then to learn that so many people were finding

the book helpful and were encouraged by what was in it, so much better than I could have ever expected.

But like anything else, the book wasn't for everyone. And not everyone thought it was absolutely

amazing. And to be perfectly honest, the criticism got to me. It really got to me. I swung from feeling

completely humbled that someone read it and was helped by my book to feeling threatened and

humiliated when someone didn't like my

work, especially when they would share that they didn't like it publicly. After the thrill of

positive reviews, the criticism stoked my pride and absolutely poisoned my happiness. So when

someone left me a negative review, Pride said, Allie, those people apparently don't realize how much the book could help them. Clearly, they don't get it. Pride whispers lies that we deserve something better, that we are above other people, and worst of all, that we are owed their praise. Pride sits on our shoulder and tells us that we should have more. Let me tell you, my pride

got the best of me that time. But in his gentleness, the Lord spoke this truth over me from

Proverbs 11, 2. When pride comes, then disgrace. But with humility comes wisdom. It was humbling for me

to admit that pride had gotten the best of me,

but recognizing it and then asking the Lord to help me be humble, actually help me learn to be

content, whether the reviews are good or bad. Pride poisons our ability to know the happiness

that comes from being content. But humility is the soil where happiness grows. It allows

us to be filled with gratitude at the wonder of God's goodness in our lives. So here's your action

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