The Single Most Important Step To Make You Happy

One mindset shift to make you happier and more productive at the same time

4urelius
Pragmatic Wisdom

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Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Don’t we all strive to be happy? We believe that idleness and being free from worries could lead to happiness if you spent the entire day doing very little. But you worry that then you would feel like the day had no use.

Does this sound familiar? That you want to relax a little, sit down with a work of fiction, or watch an episode of a series, but you don’t allow yourself to do so.

So, you struggle to choose between something relaxing and productive, and then you halfheartedly do one.

In reality, however, you can have both. An intricate balance, which will allow you to enjoy working, while also having sufficient time to relax.

It is like building a house. Your life is the actual house you build. That is where you will live and what you will see. The foundation, however, while you never actually see it, provides the whole… foundation for the house.

Without it, there would be nothing. What is that foundation, you ask?

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4urelius
Pragmatic Wisdom

Avid follower and writer of Stoic philosophy. Follow me for: philosophy, life and living better.