Happiness, positive thinking, nonsense?
14 Saturday Nov 2009
Written by Jo Jordan in POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, WELLBEING & POETRY
Are you confused by the nature of happiness? Or, by the usefulness of positive thinking?
This picture from Roy Goodman explains the essence of happiness.
Happiness by Roy Goodman
The idea is to live happily. Period.
Being successful, or getting somewhere, doesn’t make you happy. Nor does being happy get you anywhere. You just chose to be happy, or not, as you are getting somewhere.
Roy, the picture is linked to your Etsy site. If you object to your picture being displayed here, please me know. Great picture.
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