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Hand your happiness to someone else

Moral Regret·All ages

He hung his happiness on the company: when the project succeeds, when I get the title, when I retire. The morning after his retirement he could not find a reason to get up. The elders' advice was blunt: take responsibility for your own happiness throughout your life. Hand it to someone else and one day their hand closes. That morning he made his own morning for the first time — coffee, window, a walk.

My single best piece of advice is to take responsibility for your own happiness throughout your life.

— Karl Pillemer, Cornell gerontologist

TODAY’S PRACTICE

Make one decision today about your own mood — yours alone.

#OwnHappiness#MyMorning#SelfDetermined

SOURCE

Karl Pillemer, 30 Lessons for Living · Cornell Legacy Project

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