archaeology

{found this post in word?!  it's at least 2 yrs old.  happiness is so 2010.  but this post rubs my face in the fact that contentment is NON-circumstantial, since i have a totally different workload + schedule and every single morning i face the same temptation to escape into blog-land...}

i am unhappy. marcus buckingham (so hot right now) says women are unhappy. does he know how to make me happy?

i think part of my problem comes from too much reading! i read so many blogs about a life that is not in my grasp! i read about women who start their own craft/design/stationery businesses. i read blogs about parenting. i read blogs about fashion. basically i read blogs about my secondary interests rather than actually pursuing my actual interests, gifts and responsibilities!

"Buckingham advises us to forget about finding balance. 'You study the happiest and most successful women, and they deliberately pick out the moments in life that invigorate them and then tilt, target, and imbalance their lives toward those moments,' he says. Imbalance as the path to happiness?" (daily worth)

i like that a lot. i like poetic verbs in threes: "tilt, target, and imbalance."

but i don't like this. this writer makes me disgusted with the self-absorbed nature of my unhappiness. i suspect that thinking too much about how trendy it is to be unhappy--thinking too much about my unhappiness--won't be fruitful. it's not "invigorating"! instead i'm going to tilt target and imbalance right along my merry way. instead of reading blogs about the magical life i don't have and that isn't right for me, i'm going to make my life magical in the ways i am fit for. i'm tilting targeting and imbalancing toward jared, writing, and a happy attitude.

{what are you tilting, targeting, imbalancing your life toward?}