Happiness Revisited

When do you feel most happy?
I'm most happy when my work pays off. When it brings a swile to wither my face or someone else's. When a whole group of people instantly spark and energize because of something I've done, a song I chose, there's no better feeling.


React/ Respond to 'Happiness Revisited'
How we achieve 'happiness' has crossed my mind before. What is happiness? Don't we define it? So why is it that so many of us aren't happy? The concept of 'flow' very much plays into my project. When I'm getting into my music, I can just keep going, it's not work, even though technically I'll be getting a grade for this, but i thoroughly enjoy this. I feel as if more people are actually on the 'boredom' side of the flow chart and their reaction to that manages to point them to the 'anxiety' side. We set goals for ourselves so that we will be successful (not bored bums), but attempting to reach that 'success' causes us anxiety. I'm honestly not sure if anyone can actually achieve 'flow', but I believe that we all can come close, to a healthy level.


Where am I on the 'flow chart'?
I'd say that I'm pretty close to finding a healthy balance, but am more toward the anxiety side. I stree out about making my own mash-ups and finding the "PERFECT" music (funny because I'm going by my own definition of what "perfect" is...)


How has my "flow" changed throughout my project?
I've started to do more! So I've brought myself completely out of the 'boredom' side, and then a little past 'flow' and into anxiety, but I think it's a healthy level of anxiety. Personally I feel that if there was no anxiety, I would end up getting bored with my project, I would have no incentive to keep working and reaching new goals.


How can you achieve flow?
Simply put, KEEP WORKING! :) The more I do, the more advanced I get, the more fun I have! And then the more I want to keep doing it and challenge myself to reach new heights!