The Top 9 Keys To Happiness, According To Google

June 26th, 2007

…an unscientific survey on a keyboard with failing keys.

This one’s for Amy, but also anyone else who might be searching for this. There might be a few of you. I simply searched for “the key to happiness”, and these were the top nine most relevant and occasionally poignant results. In the order that I found ‘em:

1. Remember that “You Deserve Happiness”
2. You choose to be happy
3. Consistently write down things you are grateful for and perform acts of kindness
4. Learn to control your mind
5. Do what you enjoy and enjoy what you do
6. Gratitude
7. Low expectations (as Alexander Pope put it, “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he is seldom disappointed.”)
8. Visualization
9. A sense of achievement coupled with the avoidance of instant gratification

I think they mostly speak for themselves. I mostly ascribe to the “expect little but hope for the best” school of thought, but I’m a born optimist. My advice ain’t gonna help you. I’ll throw a couple of more quotes out there on the subject, courtesy of the band Grandaddy (not to be confused with my own Grandaddy, who turns ninety soon(!)).

“I’ll paint the words ‘a simple wish for peace of mind and happiness’”. (El Caminos in the West)

“It’s happiness that matters anyway.” (Sarah 5646766)

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