Day 7: My Resolutions Chart

Going into this year long project of seeking personal happiness, happier relationships, and inner peace I needed to evaluate my own definition of happiness.  We all have different perspectives and ideas about what makes us happy.  Here is my list of what I think is happiness:

First, of course, is not being unhappy!  Feeling good about whatever I'm doing, being less judgmental and more open to other perspectives and choices, having more tolerance, smiling, laughing, fun, positive thoughts, the glass half-full and the brighter side of any situation first.

Happiness is hard to put into a definition.  Gretchen points out in the intro to her book what Louis Armstrong said about happiness, "If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."  Same for happiness, "If you have to ask what happiness is, you'll never know."  I think happiness is different but the same for everyone.  It's the same feeling but different things make us happy.  We all know when we are happy.  Even though different things make each of us happy I am looking forward to discovering what does make me happy and working on it to achieve more happiness.  I'm curious to know what makes you happy.

This is my hypothesis: The Happiness Project will bring insight and tools to discover what makes me happy with the ultimate goal of bringing more happiness into my life.

I will follow Gretchen's Resolutions Chart but in only 21 days instead of a whole year.  Here is my Resolution's Chart: