Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

Success is not an essential prerequisite to happiness.

You don’t need to do anything to be aware. Your default status is awareness. To reach it you need to stop doing!

Life can be easy. It’s the path we choose that’s tough.

If events remain as they are, but changing the way we think about them changes our experience of them, could we become happy simply by changing our thoughts?

It’s the thought, not the actual event, that’s making you unhappy.

Fold a piece of paper in half and mark one side with a plus sign (+) and the other side with a minus sign (–). Now observe the dialogue happening inside your head; notice every thought as it pops up throughout your day and add a tick mark on either side of the page depending on the kind of thought it is.

If we don’t know what we’re solving for, then whatever answer we may find will be irrelevant.

Set out every morning with your brain primed to be open to something new.

With your brain’s blind obsession to keep you alive, it conveniently ignores what’s blatantly obvious: that the negatives we face are the exception that interrupts a norm of constantly flowing positives.