The Key to Happiness

...is really simple, if all you unhappy philosophers didn't know already.


Its a balance:
1) Appreciating what you do have
2) Appreciating what you don't have

Appreciate what you do have because you only realize its value when it is not there. Look back, stand back, zoom out and look at yourself and what you have as if it were not there, and you will realize how lucky you are.

Appreciating what you don't have is all about goal - setting. Its a reason to get your smug arse away from all the appreciating you have been doing for things you already have and getting to see all that you can possibly have. If you try, plan, scheme, plot and execute. Without losing sight of [1] above so much that that you become obsessed with [2] and lose your balance.