Comments on: A Message From The Founding Fathers http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2006/04/a-message-from-the-founding-fathers/ Rethinking Customer Experience & Marketing Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Bailey http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2006/04/a-message-from-the-founding-fathers/comment-page-1/#comment-411 Chris Bailey Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:30:11 +0000 http://baileyworkplay.com/2006/04/18/a-message-from-the-founding-fathers/#comment-411 Jodee, there's great wisdom in your proposal that it's the pursuit of happiness that can lead to unhappiness. Constantly chasing happiness leaves the inevitable end result: okay, now what? Once we have the hard sought happiness in hand, do we know what to do with it? Or do we go and chase it again somewhere else? I guess you might say...why be happy tomorrow when you can be happy today? Jodee, there’s great wisdom in your proposal that it’s the pursuit of happiness that can lead to unhappiness. Constantly chasing happiness leaves the inevitable end result: okay, now what? Once we have the hard sought happiness in hand, do we know what to do with it? Or do we go and chase it again somewhere else?

I guess you might say…why be happy tomorrow when you can be happy today?

]]> By: Jodee Bock http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2006/04/a-message-from-the-founding-fathers/comment-page-1/#comment-410 Jodee Bock Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:53:26 +0000 http://baileyworkplay.com/2006/04/18/a-message-from-the-founding-fathers/#comment-410 Ah, how quickly we forget about our inalienable right to be happy! I'm learning - for myself and my clients - that we are unconsciously giving up our right to be happy to feed the need to be right. How ironic. I can believe that no one will want to listen to my idea and then do everything in my power to prove it so I can be right. Never mind that by stepping outside the familiar zone (I believe it's no longer comfortable there) will almost always yield better outcomes than our usual ruts. I propose that it's the pursuit of happiness that leaves us unhappy. If we could just BE happy, we wouldn't have to be in pursuit of something to make us happy. Just choose. Don't worry. Be happy. Choose it - NOW, not someday! "As a man thinketh, so he is." - The Bible Ah, how quickly we forget about our inalienable right to be happy! I’m learning – for myself and my clients – that we are unconsciously giving up our right to be happy to feed the need to be right. How ironic.

I can believe that no one will want to listen to my idea and then do everything in my power to prove it so I can be right. Never mind that by stepping outside the familiar zone (I believe it’s no longer comfortable there) will almost always yield better outcomes than our usual ruts.

I propose that it’s the pursuit of happiness that leaves us unhappy. If we could just BE happy, we wouldn’t have to be in pursuit of something to make us happy. Just choose.

Don’t worry. Be happy. Choose it – NOW, not someday!

“As a man thinketh, so he is.” – The Bible

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