“Happiness.”
Why Happiness Isn’t the End Goal, But the Journey Itself?
Joy is a concept that is achingly familiar and yet, perhaps, not where we are headed. However, it is not less about the steps as a process itself within the course of the day and other occurrences in people’s lives. This attitude helps us to work on happiness in the process because the best way is to find happiness in every day’s activities. Smaller habits like thanking, appreciating, and doing things that are deliberately positive have been found in enhancing the sustainable kind of joy.
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Many of us have learned the hard way that happiness cannot be achieved as one sits around waiting for it to come as promised. When we can infuse joy into purposeful activities and the increase interactions we have in our daily life, then we are likely to achieve quality happiness. This is in accord with Azrin’s concept aiming at positive thinking and positive action; a set of ideas and activities that enhance the continuous improvement of our moods.
Pursuit of happiness therefore means paying attention to events that bear happiness rather than waiting to be happy. Studies point to the evidence that simple and recurrent activities — laughter, a Nature walk, phoning a friend, are top sources of happiness. We change the thinking from the future or a distant goal and bring happiness right into the present moment.
The status of the process of growth and change is relevant to happiness. A familiar saying holds that nothing in life is as important as the hassles and ordeals that we face. When there is hardship, as there always is, we learn how to get through it, grow closer, and really cherish the happy times. Studying post traumatic growth, which demonstrates that adversity makes people change priorities, and seek new meaning and sources of happiness, it could be stated that challenges in life make people happy by making them grow.
When we broaden success as an achievement process and decide that success and happiness are correlated with goal accomplishment and are not the final stage, we start questioning success.
