We've all got two wolves in us, a good one and a good one and a battery.

And they both want to eat.

The best I can tell we just got to feed that good one a little more than the other one.

Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome. If I win, I will be happy. If I don't, I won't.

It's an if then cause and effect, quid pro quo standard that we cannot sustain because we

immediately raise it every time we attain it. You see happiness, happiness demands a

certain outcome. It is result reliant. And I say if

happiness is what you're after then you're going to be let down frequently and

you're going to be unhappy much of your time. Joy though. Joy is a different thing. It's something

else. Joy is not a choice. It's not a response to some result. It's a constant.

Joy is the feeling that we have from doing what we are fashioned to do,

no matter the outcome.

Now personally as an actor, I started enjoying my work and literally being more happy when I stopped trying to make the daily labor a means to a certain end. For example, I need

this film to be a box office success. I need my performance to be acknowledged. I

need the respect of my peers. All those are reasonable aspirations but the truth is as

soon as the work, the daily making of the movie, the doing of the deed became the reward in itself for me

I got more box office more accolades and respect than I ever had before

see joy is always in process, it's under construction, it is in constant approach, alive

and well in the doing of what we're fashion to do and enjoying it. The easiest way to dissect success is through gratitude.

Giving thanks for that which we do have for what is working,

appreciating the simple things we sometimes take for granted.

We give thanks for these things,

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