From Contentment to Ecstasy: The Happiness Spectrum
Niels Steeman
I translate the science of performance into result-driven outcomes | Commercial and Marketing Executive | Health and Performance Coach
What does your ideal day look like?
Realistic, authentic and most of all, surround it with things, people, activities, items, that put a smile on your face. Most of all, keep it super simple but keep it real.
Make it as real as possible. No wild imaginations of you dancing on Mars or when you’re so loaded you can even live off your interest’s interest. Look what you have, what makes you thrive, and what curls up those corners of your mouth.
Happiness does not lie in the things we desire based on the external influences hitting the one and only part of our brain outside our skull (our eyes). Or believe the impossible is within grasp, hoping some philanthropist has a Eureka moment.
It takes some time, it does not happen overnight, that the happiness we seek these days is never about work, a title or degree, or connecting to someone you deeply admire.
The path someone else is following will be a testament in your mind as the way to solidify happiness.
We all need to find out one day that happiness is never about all the above. It is about the discovery of what lies ahead, trusting your gut, and listening to that inner voice inside of you. Screaming something doesn't feel right so we must adjust course.
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It is about accepting who you are and what you want in life. Accepting you evolve with every single second you roam planet Earth. It is an internal thing and highly personal. Someone from the outside has no control over that feeling of happiness. Happiness is not handed to you on a platter, delivered by the hands of other people. Not even those you hold dearest.
My ideal day can change from day to day, depending on the learnings and digging deep into my mind of what I need to get rid of. Negative thoughts, emotions, experiences, encounters, challenges, and setbacks.?
Realising that I survived all these events, considered as tests whether my own happiness is not detached after weathering the storm. Learning from them and applying them to fine-tune my happiness.
There is a sense of truth in sketching your ideal day. Because many of the things I imagined came true. My mind made it true so my body learned to follow in its wake.
https://bit.ly/KeepOnThriving is an example. Donating it to a good cause was one of these moments I considered a perfect day.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. | Ayn Rand