To improve happiness, first find yourself unhappy
September 28th, 2008
In order to find happiness, unhappiness needs to get documented.
This may not make sense at first, but this is one of the first exercises I recommend my coaching clients complete.
It sounds easy, but it’s definitely more difficult to do than it seems.
It is beneficial to isolate the points during one’s day that make unhappiness flare up.
The difficulty is recognizing all of them by writing them down.
It is often difficult to admit the number of occasions that one is outwardly expressing unhappiness or inwardly just feeling unhappy.
The points and issues that are documented are only a starting place. One must sort through the listed items to ferret out a cause or a symptom.
A commute that generates road rage could be due to a job that one feels stuck in, or perhaps just a tight morning schedule getting kids to school and other morning obligations completed.
Download and use the free Unhappiness Journal worksheet right now. Print these and use them to learn more about your day.
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