How Much Happiness Do You Have? - Grasshopper

How happy are you? In order to answer that question, you have to take a measurement. But what will you measure?

There’s an old axiom in management: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”

 

Seems the first step is to list the people, places, and things that make you happy. Then, you have to quantify how much of each of those things are currently in your life.

 

Measuring the happiness amount each brings you gives you a barometer for your amount of merriment, mirth, and delight. Now you know how happy you are.

 

So, how can you be happier?

 

Simply add more of the things that bring happiness into your life and subtract the things that don’t. That first requires an evaluation and measurement of what makes you happy.

 

If you find something endlessly exhausting, that’s a candidate for subtraction. You may not be able to subtract it all, but a nibble here and a nibble there will make more room for the things that tickle your happy bone.

 

No one is always happy, but anyone can be happier, just by focusing on what brings you happiness and taking steps to increase the frequency.

 

Final question: What makes you as happy as a pig in slop? Add more of that to your life and reap a bumper crop, of happiness.

 

All the best,