When we take interest in the activities of our day, we experience it differently.
Instead of managing our day, we live it.
Rather than seeing our day as a series of tasks to be accomplished, we are able to go with the flow of activity.
Happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy. Yet we cannot reach happiness by consciously searching for it. "Ask yourself whether you are happy" said J. S. Mill, "and you cease to be so." It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.
~ Mitaly Csikszentmihalyi
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