Comments on: Achieving and Sustaining Personal Happiness http://www.thinkhappythoughts.com/2008/04/15/achieving-and-sustaining-personal-happiness/ Happiness and Personal Development Blog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:29:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: David Leonhardt http://www.thinkhappythoughts.com/2008/04/15/achieving-and-sustaining-personal-happiness/#comment-12220 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:35:11 +0000 http://www.thinkhappythoughts.com/2008/04/15/achieving-and-sustaining-personal-happiness/#comment-12220 We are tought about delayed gratification as an important factor in maturity and in fact in happiness. But delayed gratification and delayed happiness should not be the same thing. The "if only..." syndrome is a result of the poor education we parents and schools give our kids. We teach kids how to count our money, but not how to count our blessings. The schools send our kids on field trips to ski hills and parents take them to Walt Disney World, but not to Panama or Ghana or Honduras or some place where they will really learn something valuable. And we continue to reward advertisers who tell us how horrible our lives are without their products. It's time to overhaul howe we educate our kids. We are tought about delayed gratification as an important factor in maturity and in fact in happiness. But delayed gratification and delayed happiness should not be the same thing.

The “if only…” syndrome is a result of the poor education we parents and schools give our kids. We teach kids how to count our money, but not how to count our blessings. The schools send our kids on field trips to ski hills and parents take them to Walt Disney World, but not to Panama or Ghana or Honduras or some place where they will really learn something valuable. And we continue to reward advertisers who tell us how horrible our lives are without their products.

It’s time to overhaul howe we educate our kids.

]]> by: Athena http://www.thinkhappythoughts.com/2008/04/15/achieving-and-sustaining-personal-happiness/#comment-11810 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:03:37 +0000 http://www.thinkhappythoughts.com/2008/04/15/achieving-and-sustaining-personal-happiness/#comment-11810 What a fantastic and uplifting post! Thanks, I needed that! Athena What a fantastic and uplifting post! Thanks, I needed that!

Athena

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