{"id":493,"date":"2016-02-04T22:40:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T04:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masterkey.betterdayskc.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2016-02-04T22:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T04:40:16","slug":"week-18-finding-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journeyofaday.com\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Week 18 – Finding Our Happy Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chicken or the egg, well Shawn Achor has helped answer the question when it comes to happiness or success — If we keep waiting for the achievements or our ideal of success to come along before being happy, we won’t get to our happy place.\u00a0 But once we put our happiness first — find it and live it, THEN the successes we want begin to fall into place.<\/p>\n

“But I don’t have any idea how to become happy first.\u00a0 I need A, B and C to happen to me before I can dream of being happy.”\u00a0 Years and years of conditioning have taught most of us this.<\/p>\n

Go back into the future just a few hundred years, there was some magic put down on paper that tied happiness and liberty together, and in this I found even more encouragement to focus on putting happiness first.\u00a0 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”<\/p>\n

This Declaration of Independence was worth fighting for, dying for, worth creating an entire new form of government to secure … yeah, it’s THAT important.<\/p>\n

So how do we make happiness happen?\u00a0 Shawn’s researched a list of 5 habits to build.\u00a0 Along with my classmates, I’ve been digging into these … and golly, gee whiz, I am becoming more and more HAPPY.\u00a0 And so are THEY!<\/p>\n

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How can you join the Happiness Team?\u00a0 Here’s Shawn’s recommendations:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Write down 3 things daily for which you are grateful.\u00a0 We’re using index cards and flipping through the pile every day.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Journal about a positive moment that occurred within your last 24 hours.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Exercise – release your endorphins daily.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Meditate – spend quiet time with yourself, shutting out the world, meeting your marvelous, future, higher self.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Commit random or conscious acts of kindness.\u00a0 Send thanks and praise to others for being in your support circle.<\/p>\n

Enjoy Shawn’s TEDx overview … then enjoy your BLISS!<\/p>\n