Welcome to the last autumn blog of the year. No doubt the tidings of the season are having an impact on you and as the year is winding down, let's add a reframe that I'm sure will speak to all of us:

"Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been

running through the streets trying to find you". 

(Hafiz)

What a great way to reconsider our pursuit of happiness. How many times have we chased after it? wished for it? assumed it was elusive and not attainable?

And yet, by introducing the notion of happiness looking for us, it unloads the want, the grasping and the judgment that it's probably out of our reach anyway.

When we are open to it and it is already coming our way, there is an energetic attraction that has been established, which streamlines the two separate paths and hastens their approach to one another.

Does this mean it automatically happens and that we can just step back and eat bonbons until happiness is knocking on our door? Clearly not. And yet, this notion allows for a ripeness of possibilities, the sense that we're not futilely tilting at windmills.

Look at it this way: you know the anticipation that you feel and care you take when you're going to meet a dear friend. You make sure you have your wits about you and do what you need to do to meet that person on time as agreed. Can't you offer the same courtesy to happiness?

What is your relationship to "Happiness"? (2:14)