"Happy People Make People Happy -- But You Can't MAKE Someone Happy."
Posted Oct 25 2010 6:09am
For the past few weeks, I've been thinking and writing a lot about how people of pronounced positivity and people of pronounced negativity affect each other. (a/k/a Tiggers vs. Eeyores .) These two groups often annoy and drain each other (and themselves) in their efforts to make conversions to their own ways of thinking.
Whenever I have a big idea, I try to sum it up in a few words: "The days are long, but the years are short "; "Accept myself, and expect more from myself."
Sometimes these are a bit koan-ish : "Happiness doesn't always make me feel happy."
I summed up the present line of argument in this way
Happy people make people happy -- but you can't make someone happy.
What do you think?
And now...no more on this topic for a while.
On another note -- thanks so much for all the kind words of congratulations about the Kristin Davis/NBC/Kristin Newman television deal ! I appreciate that so much.
* I'm in Long Beach, California, right now, to speak at Maria Shriver's Women's Conference this evening -- so happy to be here. If you're interested, you should be able to watch the live webcast here .
* Want to get my free monthly newsletter? It highlights the best of the month’s material from the blog and the Facebook Page . Email me at grubin at gretchenrubin dot com. Just write “newsletter” in the subject line.
For the past few weeks, I've been thinking and writing a lot about how people of pronounced positivity and people of pronounced negativity affect each other. (a/k/a Tiggers vs. Eeyores .) These two groups often annoy and drain each other (and themselves) in their efforts to make conversions to their own ways of thinking.
Whenever I have a big idea, I try to sum it up in a few words: "The days are long, but the years are short "; "Accept myself, and expect more from myself." Sometimes these are a bit koan-ish : "Happiness doesn't always make me feel happy."
I summed up the present line of argument in this way Happy people make people happy -- but you can't make someone happy.
What do you think?
And now...no more on this topic for a while.
On another note -- thanks so much for all the kind words of congratulations about the Kristin Davis/NBC/Kristin Newman television deal ! I appreciate that so much.
* I'm in Long Beach, California, right now, to speak at Maria Shriver's Women's Conference this evening -- so happy to be here. If you're interested, you should be able to watch the live webcast here .
* Want to get my free monthly newsletter? It highlights the best of the month’s material from the blog and the Facebook Page . Email me at grubin at gretchenrubin dot com. Just write “newsletter” in the subject line.