01 Oct What to do if you can’t “find” happiness
Happiness is frequently pitched as something you need to “find”, or “pursue”, or somehow “discover”.
Yet so many of us find happiness elusive and evasive.
And part of the problem is precisely the aforementioned way we think about happiness.
It’s not hiding, waiting to be found. And so that needs to be the first thing we accept, unless we want to condemn ourselves to ongoing disappointment and frustration.
But the good news is there’s a better way.
Rather than trying to “find” happiness, we’ll likely have much more success if we view happiness more as something we “create”. It’s there for the making, and we can make of it what we will.
So, if you can’t “find” happiness then get out and create it, make it in any shape or form that suits you (we are, after all, all different and so it makes sense that our versions of happiness will all be different).
Make happiness be your life’s work, make happiness within and when you work, make happiness in every interaction you have with others, by doing and being good, and make happiness what you bring to the world.