“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.  You have to catch it yourself.”  ~ Benjamin Franklin

Good Morning!

Today we are going to start our morning with a simple role-play, a technique I like to use once in a while.  Let’s say that tonight for dinner you want to have homemade soup.  You have a craving.  Your family has a craving.  Everyone wants soup.  Unfortunately, you don’t have a single ingredient needed to make the soup.  What would you do?  I will make a guess that you will go get the ingredients.  Obviously, if you don’t go get them, you’ll never fulfill that homemade-soup craving.

Happiness is a craving we all have.  But we can’t sit and wait for it to come our way, just as the ingredients for a recipe won’t magically appear.  We have to make a conscious effort to go out and “catch happiness.”

Many times throughout our day we are faced with something we want, and we fulfill that want.  We are thirsty  - we go get something to drink.  We are hungry – we go get something to eat.  We want to write something down – we go get a pen.  Happiness need not be any more complicated – if we want happiness, we must either go get it or create it where we are.

Your Turn:  Challenge yourself to create or catch happiness today.

Today’s Affirmation:  I create happiness in my life.