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From a young age, you are led to believe that a good happy life is a life mostly free from trouble and strife, that feeling blissfully happy, almost all the time, is the destination to strive for. You can imagine yourself running, arms outstretched, through a field of flowers. This is not about bursting bubbles or being pessimistic (I might be one of the most optimistic people on the planet). It’s about giving you every opportunity to actually live the real version of your happiest life. The version that includes moving through joy and bliss and dark and difficult, the version that includes happiness despite the ridiculous number of horrible things that happen in your life and everyone else’s all the time, from now until you die.

As my mentor Angela Lauria so eloquently put it, “And that’s never ever going to change. No day in the future when it’s changing. There’s no amount of money, there’s no new husband, there’s no computer gadget. Fifty percent of being human is dealing with B.S. News flash.”

An expectation of perpetual bliss creates additional, unnecessary struggle in a world that gives us enough. It gets in the way of being free to learn how to embrace and celebrate your normal life in all its mess and glory. Think about building your Owner’s Manual in the context of your real life, one that includes regular B.S. and stuff going sideways. If you build your Manual based on your perfect day – when all the stars align, the kids and dog and partner are happy, you hit all the green lights on the way to the office – you won’t be able to rely on it most of the time.