Are you Happy?

It’s a simple enough question, isn’t it.      .      .

But, are you Happy?

What  MAKES  it  so.          .          .

Family

Fame

Fortune

Health

Work

House

New iPhone

Smart Television

Car

Clothes

Jewelry

A Pen

Shoes

Neighborhood

Vacation

First Class Seats

What.          .        .

W          H          A        T

M          A          K         E       S

             Y           O          U

H          A           P         P       Y     ?

Maybe the truer question?

What makes you

U             N             H             A             P             P             Y.          .          .

Certainly within the last few years

there’s been this big discussion about

H          A          P          P          I          N          E          S          S

It should be no surprise

The  S E L F-H E L P

industry is a massive one

to the tune of about $11 B I L L I O N, 

just in the United States.       .      .

In fact,

When Disney modernized their theme parks a few years ago

they entitled the project:

R E I N V E N T I N G     H A P P I N E S S

It’s been the topic of thousands of books

and dozens of TED TALKS.         .          .

but maybe we should be looking less on searching for

H            A            P            P            I            N            E            S            S

and more in finding some

meaningfulness

to not just life.            .            .

but YOUR   LIFE.             .            .

Maybe it’s all how you take a look at your

HAPPINESS  COIN.          .          .

Every Coin has two sides;

as does the HAPPINESS COIN

On one side is

 H A P P I N E S S

on the other:

S A D N E S S.          .          .

You really can’t have one without the other.          .         .

We know what Happiness and Sadness

is because of the other.        .        .

it’s how we define our

Happinesses      and      our      Sadnesses.          .          .

I remember seeing this

on the night stand beside of a patient

I visited regularly;

I asked her why she had it;

“WHAT  DOES  IT  MEAN TO YOU ?”

She gave me the term of

THE HAPPINESS COIN.         .         .

“Every  coin  has  two  sides; how  could  I  ever  know  what  Happiness  is  if  I had  never  been  sad,  or  sadness  if  I  would  have  never  have  been  happy?”

I remember asking her,

“Are you Happy?”

“Yes”

“Why?”

And I love what she said, even though it was back in 2013:

“Because  I’m  not  sad.”

Isn’t that the Hmmmmmmmmmmm  of  the  Day ?

Y          O           U ?

In the BOOK:

The book gives us a really simple premise:

By celebrating small wins

you create your own system of

instant gratification.           .           .

Your brain needs to feel HAPPY.          .          .

By looking life as a journey

instead of a short-term goal,

you start seeing the bigger picture of

ups and downs

you SEE

BOTH  SIDES  OF  THE COIN.        .        .

there’s no HEADS or TAILS

just a

C         O         I         N.            .          .

Want it even more  S I M P L E:

Get your Caring Catalyst on and just

The Dalai Lama once said:

“IF  YOU  WANT  OTHERS  TO  BE  HAPPY, PRACTICE  COMPASSION.
IF  YOU  WANT  TO  BE  HAPPY, PRACTICE  COMPASSION.”

Pay, Attention, Class.          .          .

Kind of takes the guess work out of the coin toss, huh?

The Moral:

WE   ALL   W I N