Happiness is a buffet dinner...!
Achieving your own happiness is the best measure of how well you are living your life and enjoying your relationships. You can learn how to be happier and more fulfilled in everything you do and the end result of this is that everything around you will work more smoothly. It all begins and ends with us !
We’re all different…
Happiness in life is rather like a buffet at a really good hotel. If 100 people went up to the buffet and chose the food they wanted to eat in the quantity and mix that they felt would be most pleasing to them, then every plate would be different. A husband and wife going up to the buffet would each come back with plates that looked completely different. Happiness is the same.
Each of us needs a particular combination of ingredients to feel the very best that we can about ourselves.
Continuing with my buffet analogy, consider that each meal time when you visit it you’ll be selecting different food, or maybe you’ll be the person who has the same meal day in and day out without getting bored of it? But if you do try different food, then you’ll see that what you want changes by the meal, if not by the day….. so in the same vein, what we want to make us happy can change daily……
So why are we having a discourse on happiness in a business blog? Its because we’re all human beings and its all inter-related. We don’t act as automatons and if we are at least vaguely aware of what makes us happy then we have more chance of keeping ourselves on track instead of wondering off into the ether and making decisions that are not going to ultimately make us happy…
Sometimes its deciding to be bigger, open a new shop, take on more staff, and sometimes its deciding to be smaller or take on a new project, its completely individual and it changes – so we need to have some kind of a plan to make sure we’re in tune with ourselves and not just in a mad rat race that we don’t really want to win anyway….
What’s on your plate right now ?
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