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Happiness...how does that word feel to you? Interestingly I have heard a lot on the topic lately, and in a world where some days it feels like there is an anti-happiness trigger lurking around every corner, it can be refreshing to remember what exactly happiness means to you.

Recently, I was gifted a book from the author herself. The book is called 365 Days of Happiness: Because Happiness is a Piece of Cake, by Jacqueline Pirtle. I have had it for a few months now, initially, I sat down and read the entire thing, cover to cover, and now I have had some time to put it to use. Before I dive into the book and why I think it's pretty amazing, let’s talk more about happiness.

Happiness Factor

If you have been hanging out with me on social media, you know that I have recently shared a monologue by Matthew McConaughey - does anyone not love Matthew McConaughey? LOL

In this monologue, he talks about happiness as being an ever moving target...always just out of reach. According to McConaughey, happiness is an emotional response to an outcome, an if-then type statement. He says that we raise it every time we attain it.

He compares happiness to joy and says that joy is not a response, or a result, it is a constant. In this theory, joy is a feeling that comes from doing what we are supposed to do, not like what you are supposed to do in order to fit the mold in society, but your real zone of genius. And the cool thing about joy is that is present, no matter the outcome if you are doing your divine work. (By the way, you should totally check out the speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0p1fjLPjYQ)

Are you still with me? So what the heck to Matthew Mcconaughey and Jacqueline Pirtle have in common? Simple, for many people, there is a debate on whether or not joy and happiness are the same thing, the same feeling, are they even a feeling at all. I can say until Jacqueline's book and until Mcconaughey’s monologue was shared with me, I used the words rather interchangeably but had some notion of the differences.

Joy vs Happiness

Many psychology studies, articles, and thought leaders say that joy and happiness are very different from each other. They indicate that joy is more consistent and is cultivated internally. It comes when you make peace with who you are, why you are and how you are, whereas happiness tends to be externally triggered and is based on other people, things, places, thoughts and events.

So why would I be raving about my love for this book, 365 Days of Happiness? Because although I know that some of you will hem and haw over the delineation of happy vs joy and the rest of my amazing audience will scratch your heads about, “what’s the difference?” the point remains the same...this book that I am sharing with you today gives you a step by step journey on how to BE happy and experience joy for the next 365 days of your life.

365 Days of Happiness

It’s a devotional style book, with 1 inspirational and motivational aspect of how to embody happy, really live it, not just give it lip service every day. And while this isn’t the same type of joy necessarily if you aren’t living who and what you are “supposed” to be, it WILL point your compass to the path of getting to that place.