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Machines wherever you get your podcasts. This is Optimal Living Daily episode 1474,

the pursuit of happiness, and finding your joy, both by Ceylon George of Spiritual Living for

BusyPeople.com, and I'm Justin Mollock, the guy that reads to you every single day of the year,

including weekends and holidays, even in Christmas Eve today, to have you live a more meaningful

and positive life, two posts today, both from Ceylon George. So let's get right to them as we optimize

your life. The pursuit of happiness by Ceylon George of Spiritual Living for BusyPeople.com

Quote, if we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us. Richard Carlson,

have you ever tried to pursue happiness? Are you in hot pursuit at this very moment?

Maybe you're haunted by the idea, and you wonder with no disrespect to Thomas Jefferson,

what in the world does it mean to pursue happiness? Instinctually, you know that happiness cannot

be pursued directly, so you pursue it by way of proxy, people, career, success, power, material things.

You may have collected many of these things in your pursuits, but happiness itself somehow seems

to allude your grasp. No matter how fast you run, happiness seems to run just a little faster,

and all the while happiness seems to taunt you with the chant, catch me if you can.

Happiness is not an end product, it's a byproduct. Why does happiness often allude us?

Because happiness is not the end product of our activity, it's a byproduct of our activity.

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