Bobo
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- Mar 25, 2008
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It's mindset. Last year should have been a miserable year: Custody battle, cancer, IRS audit, half our income gone....
Know what? Best year of my life. Somewhere over the past few years I really began to sell myself on the idea that happiness is all about a mindset. I am sad/angry/down about an hour per month in a bad month.
It's a cliche I know but happiness and freedom are a choice. Does being a husband and a dad limit my freedom? You could make that argument - it makes me happy.
Do three dogs make it hard to travel? Yeah, but they sure as hell make me laugh when I get home.
So many people say "I will be happy when X". Horseshit. If you are miserable poor you will be miserable in a nicer place when rich. It's like when people say "I wish I lived wherever". Uhm, hello, U-haul goes there.
Second thing I figured out? You can't make someone else happy, but they can make you miserable. Think carefully about who you surround yourself with and make sure that you like the guy in the mirror because yer gonna be hangin out with him a bunch.
Know what? Best year of my life. Somewhere over the past few years I really began to sell myself on the idea that happiness is all about a mindset. I am sad/angry/down about an hour per month in a bad month.
It's a cliche I know but happiness and freedom are a choice. Does being a husband and a dad limit my freedom? You could make that argument - it makes me happy.
Do three dogs make it hard to travel? Yeah, but they sure as hell make me laugh when I get home.
So many people say "I will be happy when X". Horseshit. If you are miserable poor you will be miserable in a nicer place when rich. It's like when people say "I wish I lived wherever". Uhm, hello, U-haul goes there.
Second thing I figured out? You can't make someone else happy, but they can make you miserable. Think carefully about who you surround yourself with and make sure that you like the guy in the mirror because yer gonna be hangin out with him a bunch.