Happiness Is Overwhelming

Happiness is overwhelming. Everyone wants happiness and so many seem to fall short of finding it. I’m on a constent quest to maximizing happiness.

Here we go…

Being happy is the end game for me. If you can always be happy then it doesn’t really matter if you’re Bill Gates who owns Microsoft or Jane Smith who cleans the floors for Bill Gates. If you’re happy then it doesn’t matter what you do because you enjoy doing it. Happiness isn’t about your actions, but the feeling you receive from those actions.

If you find yourself being happy on a daily basis, then you didn’t just score a goal, you won the entire fucking game!

Work hard, play hard! This use to be my motto (YOLO!). I always had the mindset of work really hard so I can enjoy the times I’m not working. Then one sunday many years ago I remember hanging out with my buddies and explicitly saying

“I can’t believe tomorrow is monday… where the fuck did the weekend go?” (sound familiar?)

This was my ‘AH-HA’ moment. Why do we work so hard for 5 days just to enjoy 2 days? (I can see you nodding your head right now). I always looked forward to the weekend… T.G.I.F!

When you break down the math, 71% of my life consisted of looking forward to enjoying 29% of it just to complain midway through my 29% of happiness that 71% of my life sucked. Does anyone else see the problem here?

It was at that moment that I realized happiness is not something you find in a nike store, or on a hamburger bun, or in a glass of pino grigio, or on a Saturday afternoon. True happiness isn’t a result of finding anything; it’s the process of your choices.

I started being consistently happy when I made the decision to build my life around what brings me purpose. Nothing brings me more fulfilment than being able to show others how to live healthy, happy, purposeful lives.

Does this mean I’m happy 24/7/365? of course not. But I promise you that I spend more time looking forward to monday then I do saturday…

T.G.I.S!

Happiness is my end game because my happiness levels up when others level up. You win, I win. Game over.

— Alex F. Demers