sometimes we follow beliefs that don't serve our happiness…
Keyword happiness sometimes we follow beliefs that don't serve our happiness but that feel as if they reflect an accepted and inescapable way of life. So the question to ask is does it serve my happiness?
— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion) · Code of the extraordinary mind
In the book
There's a related danger in the very search: when we hunt happiness too hard we get so busy evaluating our lives that we forget to experience them — and we overrate peak intensity when happiness actually depends more on the frequency of small good moments, and we overrate pleasure at the expense of purpose. So it's worth asking of any belief or craving you're carrying the plain question: does this actually serve my happiness? The treadmill. There's little point expecting the next purchase to lift your well-being for long; you get a small jolt of pleasure, you adapt, and you slide right back to where you started, already eyeing the next thing — the hedonic treadmill. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)