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chubby little more meaningful and positive life to post today, both from Ceylon George. So, let's get right to them as we optimize your life the pursuit of happiness by everyone. Georgia, spiritual living for busy people die, come quote. If we would just slow down happiness, would catch up to us, Richard Karlsson? Have you ever try to pursue happiness or you and harbours dude at this very moment knew your haunted by the idea, and you wonder, with no disrespect to Thomas Jefferson when the world does it mean, to pursue happiness instinct.

You know. The happiness cannot be pursued directly, so you pursued by way of proxy people career success, power material. Things may have collected many of these things in your pursuits, but happiness itself somehow seems to lose your grasp, no matter how fast you run, happiness seems to run just a little faster and all the while happiness seems a Tanya with the chant catch me. If you can, Venus is not an end. Product is a by product. Why does happiness often elude us, because happiness is not the end product of our activity is a by product of our activity, Furthermore, we have very little control over the process itself. The best we can do is to environment most conducive to happiness? For instance, you may experience happiness. Her morning run one day, but film verbal another day. But if you run off now feel likely be happier overall. This may seem

counter the idea that you can choose happiness, but this is not the case because we get to choose penis on the macro level, but making this choice does not mean that will never feel sad on a day to day basis. If we commit ourselves to creating. I remain for happiness will have more good dazed and bad become more resilient and will urge advocate. Our sorrow was steadfast joy, regardless of how happy We are in the moment. You are in that moment choosing happiness, creating an environment for happiness. Here's the thing about happiness: almost nobody tells us when you chase after happiness, running screaming, for it to come to you, It will run away. Think about it. How do you feel someone came I to use shouting at you to get your attention. Would you naturally be to them. You entirely run as fast as you could in the other direction. In order to pursue happiness, we must create an environment, thou quietly, attract happiness,

to us. The way we do this, if I remember that happiness is not a trophy we receive for when he a contest, but rather an unpredictable byproduct of our daily living. How do we maintain this perspective? Number one focused on the journey. We often associate happiness with the achievement of our goals and desires, We often think unconsciously, where I get that promotion may be happy or I'll be happy when I get this Can we go on a date with me? Accomplishing these things may give us a burst of happiness but often dies away very quickly why these will were really after is not the end goal itself, but the process of achieving that goal. The deeper fulfilment comes from HU, we are becoming in the pursuit of our goal than from the goal itself, because who I become is more important than what I achieve after the happiness associated with whatever achieve dissipates. Will I be happy with who have become in it?

even the goal focusing on the journey on who you're becoming allows you to focus on the source of a more lasting happiness number to practise mindfulness. But how do you focus on the journey by being mindful mindfulness by the way is not synonymous with meditation mindfulness means being fully present in the here and now. You'll need to meditate to become mindful, though it is very useful tool for getting there to become mindful to start notice you yourself in your environment, then become fully present a what. Ever you're doing right now, next time, you're driving knows the fact that you car or the unfolding of gas or your surroundings. As you drive the more you notice, your life as it happens, the more becoming each to your own journey of becoming you'll, naturally find moments to be grateful for an from gratitude, comes about full source of happiness and number three surrender control. Paradoxically, if you want to be here

B. You need to give up the idea that you make yourself happy whenever you want shriek and pretend, happy and suppressing negative emotions, but it will eventually backfire happiness cannot be manipulate, it or engineered a can only be welcomed. If you carry out the previous two steps flawlessly does no guarantee. produce happiness within you when you want or need it was more likely to happen, is a happiness will sneak up behind You in surprise. You at moments when you least expected to show up surrendering control, simply means accepting this delightful reality lad happiness catch. You want to be happy, stop chasing after it. Let it chase after you stop focusing on achieving start, focusing on becoming stop trying to manoeuvre laid it surrender to it. If you do does no way, you'll be able to outrun happiness.

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old, that's see. A oh am dot com, slash, o Hildy, Finding your joy by someone, Georgia, spiritual living for busy people die, come quote. Sometimes your joy is a source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Did not Hon How do we find joy? We go looking in many places, hoping to find it. Have you found a yet? Did you find it? your significant other. Would you find it in your dog? Is it in the grandeur of nature? Did you find it in your success? Could it be in your money for your car or your gadgets? Is it in your social media connections for your fame and recognition? What would happen if all these things disappeared Will there be any possibility for joy? Certainly in our experience we feel like these things are the source of our joy, but they are not. Here, do not already have join your heart; they will not place it there.

joy, does not go up and down with a stock market or with your emotional highs and lows. It is now all is well even in them oh times, joy fleas when we are selfish and self centered when we seek our own interests and desires of little regard for the needs of others. Never present we engage in idolatry. Joy is always present. When we love joy loves play as adults. We feel that it is childish to play. Is why we're not joy, watch. Your children or the children of others and learn the art of joy want a fine joy play you need a hidden agenda or purpose to do it just play play with your children play with your spouse play with your work play with their struggles. Yes, your struggles want a fine joy smile. you just listen to the post, titled, the pursuit of happiness and finding your joy. Both

So on Georgia, spiritual living for busy people die come only. Therefore, today and this Christmas Eve obey having a great holiday week and I'll be back tomorrow on Christmas day, where optimal life awaits