By Peter L. Getman
MicroArts Principal Brand Director

@microarts.com, our brand strategy and Internet marketing agency, I tend to find myself pondering what intellectual perspectives create happiness in people’s lives. Recently, I wrote these down in a brief moment of lucid clarity of how I think about happiness. This helps me make decisions in my daily life, both at my branding agency and in my personal life.

• What’s worth doing is worth doing passionately.
  It will help you prioritize your goals, your business, and your life.
• Sharing is better than owning.
  It’s the difference between feeling happy and feeling lonely.
• Live life now.
  It’s true. It also makes a decent rationale when you make a choice that rips the wheels off the bus.
• Find the good in everything. It’s there.
  Perfect this skill, it will halve the number of shitty days you have.
• Patience is a virtue, not a synonym for procrastination.
  Nike had it right. “Just Do It.” Little accomplishments = happiness.
• Envy is cancer in your soul.
  Embrace your friends’ successes and luxuries; they’re your friends.
• Cut yourself a break.
  Who needs someone else to cut you a break? Do it yourself.
• Will it matter in a year?
  If it won’t, should you let it ruin your day, your mood when you deal with it?

Help me add to this missive? This is a page out of the book I’m writing and would love to add your motto for happiness. All contributors can get a hip T-shirt [free] with the “passionately” motto on it. Share your insight or personal motto, then order at: microarts.com/creative.