Things you control:
Your effort.
Your beliefs.
Your identity.
Your actions.
Your attitude.
Your integrity.
Your thoughts.
The food you eat.
How kind you are.
The media you read.
How reflective you are.
How thoughtful you are.
The people you listen to.
The type of friend you are.
The happiness that someone like Mark misses is unreal and unhealthy. He needs to learn to want a different type of relative happiness – that is, a state of reasonable contentment, with intermittent joy and pain, which, unlike the myth of a permanent bliss, can potentially be achieved. Switching from one goal to the other will involve a process of a... See more