When Happiness Does the Heavy Lifting

You are not a passive participant in your own joy.

This kid. This kid is winning at life!

If there’s one thing that I’m really good at it’s not being able to see the forest for the trees. It’s easy to do. A lot of us get mired down with adult responsibilities and the day-to-day ritual of our own busyness.

You all know what a huge fan I am of Marie Kondo. (Hint: not really.) It’s pretty funny that we’re willing to spend so much time and energy trying to see if something “sparks joy” for us.

Waiting to see the joy that we get from something relies solely on that object bringing the joy to us and us being the receiver.

There’s a problem I have with that. It means we’re passive. I feel like that’s a really half-assed way to be happy.

I don’t know about you, but I think it’s about time that I took an active role in the happiness in my life. Maybe that’s what’s missing. Honestly, I don’t know that I’ve had much skin in the game.

When we’re waiting to be the recipient of joy we can counter-productively let misery in. It’s…