Planning for Happiness
We spend considerable resources of time, money & energy in planning our lives. This includes one or more of a never-ending list:
- Our career
- Our marriage
- Our house
- Our ‘big-car’
- Our holidays
- Our taxes
- Our children
- Their birth
- Their education
- Their career
- Our health
- Our wealth
- Our post-retirement life
Thanks to technology, a great deal of time is invested in net-surfing for options, best deals, financial resources towards achieving the above ends.
Today we have a virtually endless list of (in the above order) job-websites, marriage-websites, home & home-loans' websites, car & car loan options, travel-websites, parenting-websites, healthcare-websites, the ubiquitous insurance company websites, the ‘get-rich-quick’ investment schemes, the ‘happily-ever-after’ reired life websites….and on and on.
What is all this planning going to yield ?
What are we targeting to achieve through this aggressive planning ?
What is the one, most-important thing we aim to achieve through this intensive exercise ?
Never thought about it ? Well, so have countless people…
Now.. spend a minute and think…
What is the one, most-important thing we aim to achieve ?
The obvious answer is Happiness.
Good, so far ?
So we expend so much of resource, in securing ourselves.. physically, financially, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, for the one, most-important thing – Happiness
How come, then, we never think of
Planning for Happiness
which was the desired goal, to begin with.
Ponder over it....
