Really? 100 Happy Days? A few weeks ago, after looking at my Instagram feed, I realized that my world is very brown. Not in a bad way. I like earth tones, my home is in the woods and I enjoy neutral surroundings, but all of that brown was getting me down. I wanted pops of color and bright spots. With that I started to devise a plan to capture joy and color for 100 days starting on the 200th day of the year (today).
This morning, after brainstorming on paper yesterday during my digital downtime, I found #100HappyDays a challenge that has been going on for some time, but I didn’t know about it until today. My brainstorm was for #100DaysofHappy – but I’m HAPPY to join their momentum. So, I signed up.
What is the #100HappyDays Project?
In my world it means that every day for 100 days I am going to photograph a pop of color – something that brings me joy and post it on Instagram.
Why am in the Pursuit of Happiness?
Besides having a brown world I want to experiment in focusing on one aspect of something to see if that bleeds into other areas of my life.
- If I’m in pursuit of happiness will I begin to see things happier?
- Will I be happier?
- Will my interactions be happier?
The pursuit of happiness is, by far, my favorite part of our constitution – what a crazy idea! No one had that in their founding documentation – what on earth were Jefferson and Franklin thinking? This is radical stuff. I think they KNEW that to live a full life we all had to explore what happy meant to us and that is the experiment I am jumping into.
The Statistics are In:
According to #100HappyDays people successfully completing the challenge claimed to:
- Start noticing what makes them happy every day;
- Be in a better mood every day;
- Start receiving more compliments from other people;
- Realize how lucky they are to have the life they have;
- Become more optimistic;
- Fall in love during the challenge.
That all sounds like pretty good stuff and I’m ready to get started! Join me by signing up here and follow along on Instagram. I’m about to go get my happy on!
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