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How Much Happiness Do You Have?

John Morgan Season 3 Episode 10

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This week's Grasshopper Notes weekly essay for the week of January 16th from John Morgan is about happiness – how to measure it and bring more of it into your life.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

Find the written versions of these podcasts on John's website: https://grasshoppernotes.com​​ 

"The Grasshopper" the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that  seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. John's essays and blog posts are his interpretations of these "Nips of Nectar." Others have labeled his writings as timeless wisdom. 

Most of the John's writings revolve around self improvement and self help. They address topics like:

• Mindfulness
• Peace of mind
• Creativity
• How to stay in the present moment
• Spirituality
• Behavior improvement

And stories that transform you to a wider sense of awareness that presents more options. And isn't that what we all want, more options? 

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How Much Happiness Do You Have? - Grasshopper

How happy are you? In order to answer that question, you have to take a measurement. But what will you measure?

There’s an old axiom in management: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”

Seems the first step is to list the people, places, and things that make you happy. Then, you have to quantify how much of each of those things are currently in your life.

Measuring the happiness amount each brings you gives you a barometer for your amount of merriment, mirth, and delight. Now you know how happy you are.

So, how can you be happier?

Simply add more of the things that bring happiness into your life and subtract the things that don’t. That first requires an evaluation and measurement of what makes you happy. 

If you find something endlessly exhausting, that’s a candidate for subtraction. You may not be able to subtract it all, but a nibble here and a nibble there will make more room for the things that tickle your happy bone.

No one is always happy, but anyone can be happier, just by focusing on what brings you happiness and taking steps to increase the frequency.

Final question: What makes you as happy as a pig in slop? Add more of that to your life and reap a bumper crop, of happiness.

All the best,

John

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