What if I told you that you can BUILD your own happiness?
You can! As a matter of fact, many people have done just that. Over the past four years, I have interviewed countless happy people on my podcast, Work From Your Happy Place. I have learned that happy people have some very specific things in common; things that contribute to exactly why they are happy.
Think of your happy place as a house.
Over the next several weeks, I am going to share those principles of happiness with you. From pouring the foundation to putting the final touches on it that makes it uniquely yours, I will walk you through a blueprint to build your own happy place, so that YOU can be the architect of your happiness.
A key theme that has surfaced in my interviews over and over again is that, in order to create anything amazing (like happiness!), you need to think about the order in which you do certain things.
Just like building a house, if you do steps out of order, for example, you start putting up walls before you pour the foundation, you wind up with something incomplete or fragile. If what you’ve built doesn’t have a strong foundation, it may falter at the slightest push. Life will push you, but it can’t keep you down if you have a strong foundation.
A strong foundation keeps something amazing sustainable.
With that in mind, in part 1 of this series, you will learn how to Build the Foundation. I will introduce you to the “Three Anchors” of People Who Are Happier. We will talk about the importance of feeling healthy, supported, connected, adopting an optimistic attitude and how to find genuine joy in your work and life.
Part 2 will challenge you to Think Like an Architect. Without a vision, you will find it difficult to build anything amazing. This is about taking the time to put things in the proper order, so you can get the most desirable result. I will walk you through the “5 Core Principles” of People Who Live Happier Lives. You will learn common themes of happiness, what to include and exclude from your thinking, and the answer to the question, “What does it even mean to have a happy place in both work and life?”
In Part 3, you will actually build your happy place. Over the course of five articles, we will step through each of the Core Principles from Part 2, and I will guide you in designing each as a unique room. As the architect of your life, you will create a house that is your happy place. With intentional planning, focused effort, and an abundance of powerful self-awareness, you will have built your very own “home” for a happier life.
With this new haven, you are in a powerful position to be in control of your decisions. When life throws you a curveball, you get to decide if you are going to gut a room or simply redecorate it. When your needs or wants change, you get to decide if you want to update, add an addition, or completely rebuild.
A solid foundation and a solid “home” allow you to adapt to anything. Adaptability is the cornerstone that allows life architects to live a happier life.