Find The “I” In Happiness

December 11, 2015 | Posted at 9:06 pm | by Lisa (Follow User)

There is no “I” in “team” — but there is one in “happiness,” and for good reason.
 

If you want to be happy, the first thing you need to realize is that you create your own joy.
 

Take this quote from Shakespeare: “How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness from another man’s eyes!” I’d like to think the Bard was trying to tell his audience that it’s better to create one’s own happiness rather than live vicariously through someone else’s.
 

Your wants, desires, and needs, all make up your personal recipe for joy, and the sooner you stop trying to constantly please others, the sooner you can get to work perfecting all the ratios in your recipe…