The research has been done. The lives, have been documented. You can stitch a pillow or fill your own home or desk with these epithets.
But when will we live them? Bronnie Ware wrote a book of the top 5 regrets of the dying. Viktor Frankl teaches us that happiness is not pursued, rether it ensues based on our actions. Its a byproduct of trying to live.
Recently I overheard Arthur Brooks, professor at Harvard, mentions four pillars that ensues happiness.
As I've written before, happiness isn’t found but created. The four pillars that we must build are:
1. practice faith
2. close to family
3. have real friends, not deal friends
4. meaning in work; taking it seriously.
These, practiced daily or as often as possible, based on the research by Brooks, lead to increased happiness. In fact, these four pillars are what some of the happiest people do. They are building it with what matters. Built, not purchased. Ensued, not pursued.
We have all the answers of how not to live and how we should steer the ship. Its up to each of us to do with it what we must.