This is an excerpt from the book: “Stumbling on Happiness” by Daniel Gilbert.
Good book so far.
The point I want to make form the Shakespeare quote is that we need to create our own happiness.
We can “borrow” goals and visions from others, but ultimately, we need to steer our own ship.
Just because you see some successes make others happy, they may not make you feel the same.
Find what lights you up, and work toward doing more of that :-).
-Happy Monday!
Dr Lindeman
This is a great Ted.com talk! Dan Gilbert discusses each of us has the power to create our happiness and it does not come from the outside world. I love his summary:
“The lesson I want to leave you with, from this data, is that our longings and our worries are both to some degree overblown, because we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are constantly chasing when we choose experience”
He discusses a study they conducted where when people were given a choice of a painting and one group could come back and choose a different one, another group could only pick once and then keep it. The happiest group was the group who did NOT have the choice to return/to make another decision. They decided to be happy with what they had instead.
Choose to be happy today :)!
Dissemination of Inspiration 