Review: Pursue your happiness
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2014
"You create your own misery" - I always believed this and think we should all be accountable for the direction our lives go. Positive thinking is not just a principle, it really is a habit we must train and internalize so we feed that energy to our minds. Only then will our behavior develop overtime. I particularly enjoyed the strategy of "cueing" happiness and associating behaviors with certain rewards to link a full cycle of developing long-term habits. You're provided with a template here to journal the habits you need to redirect and the rewards / cues that you need to be associating to encourage behaviors. Happiness makes more sense the more self-aware you are, and the more aware you are of other people's lives as well. Overtime you'll realize we take this for granted. We can still achieve our passions and feel deep happiness in the modern world -- you will find it. I suggest you read Clarkson's whole book to understand which key areas of your life need to be addressed.