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Why don't I let myself be happy?

Why don't I spend each day doing the 80% of things that make me happy?

I get caught up in excuses. There is no excuse.

Happiness is what life is about.

I need to be content with myself. I don't need a lady. I don't need another person. I don't need to achieve a goal.

I compiled a list of things I was unhappy about in a day and discovered that most of it was due to a dependency on others or external events, such as girls not responding, movements in share prices, managers not providing recognition for good work, increased business fees, and stepping in a puddle.

During the Happiness Year I recorded 25 happy to 2 sad faced days. This is a pretty good result. I achieved the ratio of happy of sad days of my goal, although I was after twice as many happy days.

The two months since I returned to work were one of the saddest of periods of my life. During this time I recorded 1 happy to 6 sad face days. It was through this difficult period that I discovered that one must become free of the ego as spelled out in Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now.

I must allow myself to be happy.