The road to happiness

How can I be #happy #successful & #content?
I’m sure these are questions we often find ourselves answering for clients these days.
Here’s what I find myself saying often- while being happy/successful/content isn’t the result of a magical recipe, a key ingredient that can help us get there is ‘Flow’. The ability to reach a state of #flow can be the starting point of everything you want in your life. Flow is a state of mind in which a person becomes fully immersed in an activity.

The ideal way to find flow is to find tasks/activities that align with our skills but are slightly outside our comfort zones. This middle path is the key to finding your flow because then you experience it as a challenge. The next step is to have a clear objective for the activity; this will help cohesively direct your activity. But remember not to obsess over the objective – the key is to be present.

Perhaps the biggest challenge we’ll face in the journey to flow is to concentrate on a single thing at a time. From reducing creativity to impacting memory and increasing stress levels, the epidemic of multitasking has crippled us in more ways than one.
At the end of the day, flow is a state and a habit that one can cultivate. We must understand that we can help create a more fulfilling reality by pursuing flow than our present one.

And as Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit”.