Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

If you’re not in the here and now, then you’re simply in your head. There’s nowhere else to be. If the past twenty years feel more like a week, it might be because you spent only a week of that time truly experiencing life, being fully present.

You’re not your possessions.

Despite the temptation to see the past as real, it is not. The only time that ever really exists is the moment you experience as now, and once that moment is replaced by the next, we call it the past.

Whatever you do, give it your undivided attention.

The past that we consider such an important aspect of ourselves is really nothing more than a record of moments we call memories.

You’re not your family tree.

If you examine the thought forms that cause you to be unhappy, you’ll realize that they mostly stem from attachments to illusions and false beliefs.

Confucius said: “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”

If events remain as they are, but changing the way we think about them changes our experience of them, could we become happy simply by changing our thoughts?