gladysjpadilla posted: " "Happiness depends on ourselves." ~ Aristotle Hello 2024! Time to choose another word, another mantra to define this new year. When I look back on the year that was, it was such a milestone year. I celebrated my 40th year of birth, and thereby set" The Working Mom Chronicles
Hello 2024! Time to choose another word, another mantra to define this new year.
When I look back on the year that was, it was such a milestone year. I celebrated my 40th year of birth, and thereby set forth a lot of firsts: birthday celebrations in The Farm in San Benito, Champagne Room, my promotions to director, post-graduate in AIM, and capped the year with a family trip to New York. While some of these were pursued actively, others were opportunities and surprises. One common theme centered around a particular value: happiness.
It was the pursuit of happiness that made me go for fulfillment of bucket lists, and to share the same with family. And it is this same pursuit that I want to level up for 2024.
An excerpt from Grit (The book) and the concept of Adversity Quotient tackles personal reasons why people stay in a certain organization. These may be called by the more familiar term "non-negotiables", but ultimately asks the question: "What makes you stay?" For me, what made me stay in this company longer than the rest speaks about how I value happiness the most: If I am not happy anymore, then I will start exploring greener pastures elsewhere. Happiness is what drives me; and this conscious effort to find what makes me happy will be my lighthouse moving forward for the year.
Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project discusses this in full detail. In essence, we define things that make us happy: stronger relationships with family and friends, a more positive outlook on self, tackling otherwise procrastinated tasks. It may be high time for me to return to this book as my guidepost as well. However, I am still opening up the opportunity for happy surprises along the way.
Cheers to Happiness, the Pursuit of It, and the Project of It! Cheers to 2024!
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