Your Happiness Plan

Your Happiness Plan
Before we get under way with today’s briefer-than-normalchinese phonechat, I want to conduct a little research on the run. Put up your hand ifchina storehappiness is one of your aims in life. And no, participation is not optional at Stepcase Lifehack today.We create plans to build wealth. And plans to lose weight. Plans for our dream home. Future plans. Travel plans. We plan the academicchina clothingpath that will lead to our ideal career. Or so we think. We plan our wedding (well, some do). Our marriage. Our family (2.3 kids and a Golden Retriever). It seems we have a plan for pretty much anythingStainless pipethat’s remotely important in our lives, so why wouldn’t we have a plan for the thing which drives us all: a desire to be happy? Perhaps we think we’ll find it in all our other plans? That is, happiness will be the net result of all the other.. stuff.
If happiness is such a universalpiston ringpursuit, why does it prove to be so elusive to so many? Dare I say, to the majority? Perhaps not in your (personal) world, but step back a little and take a peek beyond your fence. Take a look around. And not achain suppliercursory glance, a proper look. Examine the faces, the body language, the posture. Listen to the conversations, the words, the tone. So much of it reeks of… blaah. So much of it seems to be devoid of happiness.
Walk around your city and lookweb design Sussexpeople in the eye (don’t get beaten up in the process) and what do you see most? Fear? Uncertainty? Stress? Self-doubt? Frustration? Apathy? If you had to label it, what would you sayMother of the Bride Dressesthe dominant emotion is these days? Would it be closer to the positive or negative end of theFlower Girl Dressesemotional scale? To be honest, I’m not seeing a whole lot of joy out there lately. Why all the long faces? Why all the busy therapists? Why all the affairs? And body-modifying surgery? And substance abuse? And other addictions? And why all the accumulation of stuff we don’t need with money we don’t have?CouldFlower Girl Dressesit be that when it comes to the universal goal, we’re missing something crucial? Something massive perhaps? Like the whole point? Could it be we’re looking where happiness ain’t? Perhaps we’re chasing the wrong things? Perhaps we shouldn’t chase at all?