what makes you happy?

What actually matters to your happiness? Good friendships, work that you enjoy, reading books that make you think, walking in nature, working out, watching a good movie — you know this.

Instead I’m asking you to ask yourself: where do you feel most comfortable and confident? Where do you laugh the loudest? Where do you let your guard down? Where do you feel the urge to take an Instagram photo because you want the world to see what you see and feel how you feel? Where do you get your biggest ideas? Where do you feel free to stretch

Where you are. Whom you are with. What you are doing. What sights, sounds, aromas, textures, or flavors are associated with your joy.

How often do you laugh? When was the last time you felt a true, unfettered moment of joy? What emotions do you feel when you walk into your home at the end of the day? How about when you enter each room? How highly does your significant other or family value joy? Who are the most joyful people in your life? How often do you see them? How often do y

1. I know what makes people grow more reliably than anything else. It is: taking on a difficult project with some amount of public accountability. This can be large or small: a lecture series, a business, a blog, a house, a child, etc.


2. It’s strange, but I know that it’s common to resist positive emotions, as well as negative ones. Ask yours