https://madelaineweiss.com/the-happiness-imperative/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-happiness-imperative Board Certified Executive, Career, Life Coach, Licensed Psychotherapist Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:12:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://madelaineweiss.com/the-happiness-imperative/#comment-182 Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:12:26 +0000 https://madelaineweiss.com/?p=3651#comment-182 I remember Valentine’s Day cards, sounds like. harder for boys than I knew then. And I love what you said: “you should perhaps try to find gratification in what you do rather than in what will happen.” Perfect. In the now not later, right? Thank you!

]]> https://madelaineweiss.com/the-happiness-imperative/#comment-181 Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:20:43 +0000 https://madelaineweiss.com/?p=3651#comment-181 At opening this blog commentary and gflancing at the title, I thought for sure you were going to opine about St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow. I’m a leprechaun but can’t claim Irish ancestry, yet I enjoy days of “release like holidays that celebrate Halloween, New Years Eve, Mardi Gras, Purim, etc., and I use the occasion to indulge something or other not in moderation. I also used to look forward to (but not without anxiety) Valentine’s Day in elementary school, because we were allowed to bring and distribute Valentine’s to anyone in the class — but that was a day of reckoning with worry precisely who might decide to give me a Valentine or not, and whether or not to take the risk to leave a Valentgine on the desktop of a pretty girl on whom I had a secret crush. So I like your message encouraging the risk of happiness striving but also aqcknowledging not all dreams are fulfilled, and you should perhaps try to find gratification in what you do rather than in what will happen. Now I need to go buy a Lottery ticket . . .

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