“If you can’t be with the one you want, love the one you are with”-lyrics to a song
A very catchy phrase. If you can love what you have instead of what you want, will it lead to happiness? Maybe?
Chip Conley offers a better formula:
(Wanting what you have) Gratitude
Happiness=_____________________=_____________________
(Having what you want) Gratification
Let’s examine the extreme points(on a scale of 1=missing to 100=completely full):
If wanting what you have is 100 but you have very little of what you want (give it a 1)
Happiness=100/1 = 100% so you are completely satisfied
If having what you want is 100 but you don’t want what you have (give it a 1)
Happiness=1/100 = 1% so you are completely dissatisfied
The math agrees. I suppose most of us are somewhere between these points.
Today’s question is:
What is your level of happiness and how would you improve it?
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