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This is Optimal Living Daily episode 2336. The Happiness of Pursuit. And bucket lists.

Both by Andrew James of it's AndrewJames.com and I'm Justin Malik. I have two articles that I'm sharing today.

The first one's pretty short but important talking about happiness. And the next on bucket lists.

Both worth hearing so with that let's get right to it and continue optimizing your life.

The Happiness of Pursuit by Andrew James of it's AndrewJames.com.

Recently I've been thinking about what makes me happy, truly and unfathomably. Luckily I'm fortunate to have many things in my life that contribute to my happiness.

The people closest to me who love and encourage me, creating meaningful art, and traveling to exciting places while experiencing new and life changing things.

For so long however, I've attempted to organize my life in such a way that can sometimes limit and often hinder the experiences that contribute to my overall happiness.

I do this for a number of reasons but mainly because I'm scared of being happy. I feel that some people, if not many, experience this as well.

Allow me to explain. More often than not, I'm scared that when I'm happy it means I'm being lazy and unproductive.

If I'm feeling my time doing things for fun, then I am minimizing my productive output.

You can understand why this mindset can be quite dangerous. Usually this line of thought is not true. As a matter of fact I'd say it is hardly ever true.

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