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
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