{"id":3170,"date":"2009-12-21T00:38:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T05:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2016-07-05T18:03:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T22:03:23","slug":"what-is-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/12\/21\/what-is-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/meaning_absence\/2893923578\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3173\" title=\"photo credit just Luh.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/happiness.jpg\" alt=\"photo credit just Luh.\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/happiness.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/happiness-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\\&#8217;\\&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel about this definition of happiness?<\/p>\n<p>Happiness is felt when one is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>engaging in satisfying work<\/li>\n<li>avoiding negative events and emotions<\/li>\n<li>feeling gratitude, forgiveness and optimism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Is happiness enough?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Not for Me.<\/strong> And I&#8217;d argue it&#8217;s not enough for You either. For our Innerpreneurial drive isn&#8217;t fueled by our lack of happiness and our desire to obtain it, rather it&#8217;s fueled by <strong>our desire for meaning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>First comes happiness, then comes meaning?<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;d say choosing to be happy &#8212; choosing to engage in satisfying work, choosing to avoid negative events and emotions, choosing to feel gratitude, optimism, and forgiveness &#8212; provides you with the ability to seek beyond the pleasant life and explore possibilities that bring you greater significance.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d insist that your happiness has allowed you to identify your need to be in service of something larger than your Self. I&#8217;d assert your choice to be happy is the foundation on which you&#8217;ve cultivated your belief in your Self and your value, and fostered your faith that You can create the change you seek.<\/p>\n<p>They way I see it is without happiness in our life we don&#8217;t have hope, and without hope we can&#8217;t realize our desire for and our ability to create meaning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a title=\"just Luh's photo stream\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/meaning_absence\/2893923578\/\">just Luh<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/meaning_absence\/2893923578\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3173\" title=\"photo credit just Luh.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/happiness.jpg\" alt=\"photo credit just Luh.\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/happiness.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/happiness-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[tweetmeme]<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel about this definition of happiness?<\/p>\n<p>Happiness is felt when one is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>engaging in satisfying work<\/li>\n<li>avoiding negative events and emotions<\/li>\n<li>feeling gratitude, forgiveness and optimism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Is happiness enough?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Not for Me.<\/strong> And I&#8217;d argue it&#8217;s not enough for You either. For our Innerpreneurial drive isn&#8217;t fueled by our lack of happiness and our desire to obtain it, rather it&#8217;s fueled by <strong>our desire for meaning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}