I invite you all to join me in My Happiness Project. It may begin with me, but it doesn’t belong to me alone. This is my New Year gift to all of you. The moment you adopt it, it becomes your own personal journey (My’ Happiness Project), something to explore, practice, master, and ultimately treasure. The day we stop postponing happiness is the day life starts cooperating.
Project Overview Mission: Happiness is a conscious living project designed to help individuals reclaim happiness as their natural state, protect it as a personal treasure, and practice it daily—regardless of external circumstances. This project is not about bypassing pain or denying reality. It is about where we place our attention, energy, and belief, and learning how to remain compassionate without absorbing sorrow, stability without becoming numb, and happiness without dependency.
Core Intention: To remember and live from our original state of happiness, rather than seeking it outside ourselves or postponing it for a “someday” that never arrives.
Primary Objective: To remain happy no matter what—by developing awareness, choice, and inner mastery.
Secondary Objectives:
To recognize how and where happiness is lost during the day.
To reduce unconscious emotional drain from people, media, beliefs,
and expectations.
To strengthen emotional and spiritual stability while
remaining compassionate.
To shift happiness from a concept into a daily lived practice.
To transform sorrow into learning, insight, and growth
(emotional compost).
To build a personal system for protecting happiness as a valuable asset.
Guiding Principles of: My Happiness Project:
Energy follows attention: What I dwell on, I feed.
Happiness is my nature, not a reward.
No one gives me happiness; therefore, no one can take it away.
Compassion does not require suffering.
Stability helps more than emotional collapse.
Happiness is and can be abundant and constant
Choice precedes experience.
Project Structure, Phase 1: Awareness – “Where Does My Happiness Go?”
Objective: To become conscious of happiness leaks. To-Do’s: Daily self-check-in (2–5 minutes): When did my happiness dip today? Who was I with, thinking about, or engaging with?
What belief or expectation was activated?
Notice emotional contamination: Am I feeling with someone or for someone? Did I absorb sorrow instead of holding compassion?
Reduce exposure to: Draining conversations, Fear-based media, Mental loops that consume energy
Outcome: Clarity around patterns that steal happiness.
Phase 2: Choice – “Happiness Is a Decision”. Objective: To consciously choose happiness, moment by moment. To-Do’s:
Practice the pause: Before reacting, ask: What would a happy, empowered version of me choose?
Challenge false measurements:
“I was happier back then” – Compared to what?
Replace postponement language:
From “Someday I’ll be happy” – “I choose happiness now.”
Daily affirmation: Happiness is my default state.
Outcome: Ownership of happiness instead of outsourcing it.
Phase 3: Protection – “Happiness Is My Treasure” Objective: To guard happiness as something precious and non-negotiable.
To-Do’s: Identify happiness thieves: Expectations, Ego reactions, Comparison, Over-identification with problems
Set inner boundaries: I can care without collapsing and I can listen without absorbing.
Create a Happiness Rule: “Nothing external has permission to steal my inner state.” Emotional sovereignty and resilience.
Phase 4: Activation – “Happiness as Creative Energy” Objective: To use happiness as fuel for life, creativity, and service.
To-Do’s: Find your Happiness Multiplier: Music, Movement, Nature, Creativity, Silence, Connection
Introduce lightness daily: One joyful act with no agenda.
Observe productivity:
Notice how happiness increases clarity, efficiency, and impact.
Outcome: Happiness becomes energizing, contagious, and productive.
Phase 5: Integration – “Living … Happiness” Objective: To turn happiness into a way of life.
To-Do’s: Create a Happiness Mascot like a word, mantra, song, object, or symbol.
Weekly reflection: What protected my happiness this week? What challenged it? What strengthened it?
Share happiness without preaching. Through presence, stability,
and example.
Outcome: Happiness embodied, not explained, Reflection & Inquiry (Project Journal Prompts)
Which expectations block my happiness?
What is my current definition of happiness?
How “expensive” is my happiness?
What is already okay in my life right now?
What am I afraid will take away my happiness?
What do I love—and do I believe it gives me happiness?
What does optimal happiness feel like in:
My body?
My relationships?
My possessions?
If happiness is my treasure, how will I protect it today?
Success Indicators: Faster emotional recovery, Reduced reactivity, Increased clarity and creativity.
Greater compassion without exhaustion. Inner stability during external chaos, A felt sense of lightness and empowerment
My Happiness —Activated!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
That’s why the path of spirituality and meditation teaches us the importance of being able to master the self. To learn how to master the senses is the way to master the world around you. We must be able to control our inner world of thoughts, long before they extend out into the world through our words and actions. This is attained through self-discipline and self-management, because it all starts with the “self”. As we begin to lose the self, then we try more desperately to control everyone and everything on the outside, and we all know how badly that works out for everyone.
Happiness is one of the original qualities that are deep within our souls. When you become retrospective and go within, you will find creating THE HAPPINESS PROJECT exactly what you need to live in a place of PEACE! Learning meditation and practicing it daily will help you understand yourself better and learn to discern what is real from what is not.
I am conducting a FREE ZOOM meditation class on Tuesday mornings, so that we can all learn to live more positively, with HAPPINESS in our heart and mind, by putting the self first, especially in these troubling times. It begins promptly at 10:30AM and continues until approximately 11:30AM.
Zoom ID: 852 5673 8420
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