What Is Happiness
Are you happy? Right now? It’s a question that we don’t really think about, is it? So take a second to stop (at the end of this sentence) and ask yourself “Am I happy?” To answer that, don’t we need to know what happiness is? I asked my Facebook friends to define happiness and while there were similarities, different things defined people’s happiness. So can we come up with one definition for happiness? Should we bother? And what impact can true happiness bring to your life, your ambitions and even your health? You can imagine to write this article I looked up “What is happiness?” And found tons of famous peoples from across 5000 years quotes. Of all of these I like Michael J. Fox’s the best: “My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.” Thinking of the people I’ve coached this year, this really resonated because for so many people life is not working: It’s overwhelming. It’s hard work. It’s challenging, w...