Rules of Happiness

If you're doing things in order to be happy, you're doing them in the wrong order. - Michael Neill

Model of Happiness by Jose Silva and Burt Goldman, authors of The Silva Method of Mental Dynamics...

Rule number 1:
If you like something, enjoy it.
Most people's first reaction to this one is "well, of course!". And yet how often have you beat yourself up for having a read of the sports section before the business section, chatting with a friend on the phone when you're "supposed" to be working, or, horror of horrors, having a second helping of dessert? In fact, it's surprising how rarely we allow ourselves to truly enjoy what we enjoy, instead believing the dictum, "if you enjoy it, it must be bad for you! (And if it's bad for you, you shouldn't do it, and if you do do it, you should at least feel bad about it because that makes it OK! :-)"

Rule number 2:
If you don't like something, avoid it.
Gasp! Permission to not do what I don't want to do? No, no, no - anarchy will ensue! Oh, wait, here's rule number three...

Rule number 3:
If you don't like something and can't or won't avoid it, change it.
It takes courage to be happy, doesn't it? Rule number four: If you don't like something, can't or won't avoid it, and can't or won't change it, accept it. Now how do I do that? Oh...

Rule number 4:
The way to accept something is to love it.
Love is, after all, most usefully thought of as a verb, although that does make it a bit tricky to "fall into it"....

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