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Chapter one. Why Happiness? There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way Thich Nhat Hanh. Happiness can be a deceiving word, because at first glance it seems like a simplistic pursuit. We'll use the term a lot in this book, and since the meeting we assigned to things create our reality. It's important to establish what we mean by happiness. It's not simply a feeling of contentment or success. It's the entire journey leading up to such feelings or states. It represents many layers of life, none any more or less important than the others. They support each other to create our reality happiness. Barrier Number five. We place our hopes in external satisfaction, which perpetuates dissatisfaction. Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind. Then on the externals in the world. George Washington Beyond our individual efforts and challenges, there are plenty of societal factors that play a role in our happiness and our perception of life. One such example were compelled to keep working, spending and reaching higher goals. The message persists far beyond the point when we've obtained our initial happiness objectives, creating a perpetual sense of lack and need. Despite all evident desires. Being met your happiness seeking profile. Now that we've discussed the fact that our life factors air connected, let's pivot to see how those factors tend to show up in individuals. To do this, we've run the data through extensive analysis and discovered four distinct happiness seeker profiles. That's not to say everyone fits squarely into one of these categories, but it provides a valuable overview of general personalities and insights, which we can use to analyze our own lives. Finding work you love Hannah, 32. Right after college, I started working in a job I loved. I worked with great people and supported a mission that mattered to me. I spent several years building my skills for this role and had great success with high responsibility projects. After a while, I was offered an opportunity doing similar work with another organization, and I took the role, thinking it would be a good step up and a good learning opportunity. Once I got into the role, though, I realized that the actual tasks I was doing was only a sliver of what made up my previous satisfaction with my work. This new atmosphere was totally different employees often work through lunch or stayed late. The culture was one of control and orders rather than co creation and personal independence. It only took a few weeks to realize just how critical life work bounce was to my overall happiness. The dissatisfaction seeped into other areas of my life. I vented and snapped at people close to me. I ate unhealthy foods to distract myself from the stress. I turned down social opportunities because I was in a bad mood. Eventually, I walked away from the job and rediscovered a balanced approach to work. But I know lots of people who seem to express the same frustrations without taking any action. As someone who's been on both sides, loving and hating my work, I'm just grateful that I realized when I was miserable. Life Vision assessment. Fallible assessment at 3 60 living dot c o one. How clear is your life vision over the next six months? One year, three years to what elements are most important in your future? This could include goals for your health, financial situation, family relationships, work, etcetera. Three. How many hours do you spend per week doing activities that ignite passion along the journey of life. Four. What enjoyable activities and passions do you wish you spent more time doing and how might you incorporate them in your free time? Consider the recreation, hobbies, quality time and other activities, which in richer journey while progressing towards your ideal vision of the future and what activities you could swap out in exchange for the enriching qualities of these activities. Remember that which is most important should never give way to that, which is least important. Five. Which of these benefits would you like to gain by spending more time enjoying your passions? Meet like minded people, discover and use skills and strengths. More memorable moments. Self discovery, more energy and motivation to accomplish great things. Higher productivity, better flow. Focus on an enjoyment of activities. More remarkable achievements. Stronger dedication to helping other people lower stress. Personal strategies for nutrition. Often our days air So busy that convenience takes priority. Things like including fresh produce in our diet. Sitting down to focus on eating itself and choosing quality ingredients get pushed to the back burner. The key lies in making healthy food and healthy choices. The more attractive option, which over time will create habits that reinforce themselves. Explore culinary creativity. Add some flavor to your recommended vegetable servings by enjoying them with a healthy dip like comments or dizzy key, which can be flavored further with garlic or other seasonings. Dress up your salads with something simple but yummy. Try making your own dressing with oil, spices and vinegar. There are loads of recipes online for your only limit is your own creativity. Make it a rule to eat a salad or serving of vegetables before eating the main course. You'll be sure to get your key nutrients, but eating the vegetables first before your to fall. Make healthy snacking more convenient. Chop up vegetables that carrots, celery and broccoli right when you bring them home and store them pre portioned in the fridge. Maybe also proportion servings of dip. To go with them, you'll be more likely to choose healthy options if they're prepared. Go forth and be happy. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows under his feet. James Opium with each bit of knowledge and each thought provoking question in this guide, you've been building your personal intuition. Now it's time to put it to use in all reality. You have had the ability to create change in your life all along. This guy to simply helped remind you of the specific steps to do it. As you embark on this journey, remember to keep cultivating that intuition, we hope you feel that this guide has helped spark inspiration to put knowledge to action and that you'll keep using it to create your best life. We wish you both encouragement and congratulations for taking the first steps toward a better life. You are the director of your own future. So move from where you are today. The good life awaits.