Have You Found Your Path To Happiness?

What makes you happy? Can you sustain it or does it come and go beyond your power to control it?

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Emily Esfahani Smith would have you know that finding meaning in life would be a better path to take than chasing happiness with a void on the inside of you.

Slow down and engage gear for some deep thinking as you reflect on what Emily has to share with words of gold in setting of silver concerning the Four Pillars of a Meaningful Life:

1. Belonging (receiving and showing love)

2. Purpose (making a contribution)

3. Transcendent (connected to a higher reality)

4. Story-telling (your personal narrative about you)

Click here for There's more to life than being happy | Emily Esfahani Smith.

 

Safeguard Your Quiet Time & Happiness

Are you driven to get so far ahead in life that you are playing catch-up with the real you on the inside? Learn to slow down and carve a niche-time for solitude and contemplation -- let your thoughts surface.

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You might the find the following article written by Alan Lightman to be refreshing for your soul.

Click here for Go ahead, waste some time — it’s good for you. Here’s why.

"Our hyperconnected lifestyle, without downtime, threatens our “inner selves.”

My inner self is that part of me that imagines, that dreams, that explores, that is constantly questioning who I am and what is important to me.

My inner self is my true freedom.

My inner self roots me to me and to the ground beneath me. The sunlight and soil that nourish my inner self are solitude and personal reflection."

-- Alan Lightman

As you observed your quiet time, you could well find what makes you happy and go about doing it to make yourself happy.

"I think true happiness means understanding what makes you truly happy and to live for that purpose. From the perspective of outsiders, such happiness may seem trite or weird, but as long as one understand what makes one happy, and pursues it accordingly, that would be a wonderful life indeed." -- Sayaka Murata (Source: The Straits Times, 18 September 2018)