{"id":1964,"date":"2023-04-08T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/9-strategies-to-stop-chasing-happiness-and-start-creating-happiness\/"},"modified":"2023-04-08T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T13:00:03","slug":"9-strategies-to-stop-chasing-happiness-and-start-creating-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/9-strategies-to-stop-chasing-happiness-and-start-creating-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Strategies to Stop Chasing Happiness and Start Creating Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI want to be happy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ask someone what they want, and that\u2019s the answer ninety-nine times out of one hundred.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"more-55949\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was one of my answers, along with freedom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a solid-sounding response that\u2019s hard to argue with; <a href=\"https:\/\/addicted2success.com\/life\/happiness-is-not-a-myth-heres-how-you-can-create-it\/\">who doesn\u2019t want to be happy<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only one problem, it\u2019s not a solid answer; it\u2019s vague and empty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We must understand that happiness comes in different flavors to answer the question meaningfully.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understanding how to create harmony between the two forms of happiness below is critical to living a rich and meaningful life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two flavors of happiness we need to understand are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hedonic Happiness &amp; Eudaimonic Happiness.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hedonic happiness is achieved through experiences of pleasure and enjoyment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It refers to the sort of pleasure or happiness that we derive from doing what we like or avoiding doing what we don\u2019t like.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two common examples of hedonic pleasure are sex and food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eudaimonic happiness is achieved through experiences of meaning and purpose.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Examples are:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Time with family.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experiencing awe and wonder.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having a mission and taking consistent action.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being of service.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serving something more significant than yourself.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both are wickedly important to the quality of our lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, most of us tend to lean too heavily on hedonic happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because it\u2019s easier and what we\u2019ve been conditioned to do.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we lean too heavily on hedonic happiness, we consistently seek out the next hit and the subsequent rush; our overall well-being is abdicated to externals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hedonic happiness is short-lived, and when that\u2019s the only form of happiness we pursue, we become chasers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We chase money, status, and dopamine highs from social media, porn, or binging on shows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s nothing inherently wrong with any of these activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is, however, something wrong with them if we feel like our lives lack meaning and purpose.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because when we feel as though our lives lack meaning and purpose, we feel empty inside, even if we have financial and materialistic success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s like a success-sized hole in our lives, and the relentless chase of hedonic happiness will only widen the hole.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/addicted2success.com\/quotes\/25-of-aristotles-most-profound-quotes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHappiness depends upon ourselves.\u201d \u2014Aristotle\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hedonic happiness is like throwing sand in a sieve if we feel empty and our lives lack meaning and purpose.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why it\u2019s so important to understand the forms of happiness and the importance of harmony.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eudaimonic happiness is more challenging; it requires awareness, intention, and breaking free from a life set to autopilot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It requires we ease off the pursuit of short-term pleasure seeking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eudaimonic happiness is a long game; it requires long-term thinking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cool thing about eudaimonic happiness is that it\u2019s sticky.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meaning after the experience is over, the feeling of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment sticks around.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It ripples out to all areas of life and makes life richer and more profound; it creates an extraordinary life story and is what creates a legacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eudaimonic happiness leaves a mark on the soul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/addicted2success.com\/life\/create-your-happiness-dont-pursue-it\/\">Eudaimonic happiness isn\u2019t chased; it\u2019s created<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We create a life worth living by shifting the paradigm and introducing more actions that produce eudaimonic happiness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how do we shift toward eudaimonic well-being?<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Here are 9 simple strategies to do just that.\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seek flow states.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Value your physical and mental health.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Appreciate and cultivate your deep connections.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know your values and aspire to live a value-driven life.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reflect on classical virtues that speak to you and put them into action.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aim for harmony, don\u2019t banish hedonic pleasure from your life completely.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be clear about your long-term goals and aim to take daily steps toward them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experience beauty, awe, and wonder in nature, museums, or novel activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aspire to do good, to serve something bigger than yourself. Bonus: Feeling good will follow.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The goal is not to eliminate hedonic activities; that\u2019s unrealistic and unhealthy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are two primary goals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Identify the hedonic activities that suck the energy out of you, that don\u2019t serve your long-term vision for your life, and that when you\u2019re done with them, you wish you had your time back.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Replace those activities with eudaimonic activities so you can fill the success-sized hole in your life with mission, meaning, purpose, and fulfillment.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A great place to start the journey is by asking,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen was the last time you felt fully alive?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We must sit with this question in quiet reflection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What exactly were you doing?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where were you? Who were you with? Engage all the senses, sight, sound, touch, and smell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we experience this moment in exquisitely rich detail in our minds, we can analyze it precisely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What was significant about that moment?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What can you learn from this experience?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which core ingredients for flourishing can be extracted from that scene?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we explore this question in a meaningful way, we reconnect with ourselves and open up a new way of thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One that allows us to cultivate harmony in our happiness by letting go of the chase and instead creating our happiness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transforming our role from chaser to creator makes our lives meaningful again.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI want to be happy.\u201d Ask someone what they want, and that\u2019s the answer ninety-nine times out of one hundred.\u00a0 It was one of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}