184-Experiencing Happiness

Hey friend, let’s chat about the idea that experiences make us happier. Here’s what I’ve learned from my 10-year-old.  

 

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I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and I wanted to riff for a minute or two, on this idea from yesterday that experiences make us happier.  As we enter the holiday season, this has been on my mind a lot lately.  I have two kids who, like most kids, like stuff.  

 

But what I’ve noticed is that my now-10-year-old boy, he’s always wanted this cool new toy.  One year it was a little riding machine that he sat on and was an outside toy.  It was cool for about 5 hot minutes and now it sits in my garage, rarely being played with.  

 

Another year, he wanted this mario game that combined an electric car with the game and was a 4-D type playing game.  I thought he would lose his mind, he had been wanting it for months.  It was a harder toy to come by that year and we snagged one.  I was so excited to give it to him and on Christmas, he played with it for maybe an hour and it’s not the toy he gravitates toward, yet, he wanted it so bad.  

 

So, as I look at my own kids and my own life, I can see how our mind plays tricks on us, we think these things will make us happy, yet they won’t.  They just don’t and I have evidence in my own life how this is exactly what happens.  Yet, we buy this stuff.  

 

This year, we are gifting the children season passes to the amusement park near us and I think there will be more hours of happiness built into those experiences.  

 

I guess what I am saying is that it’s so easy to get caught up in the stuff, we all do it.  And even when we know better, we do it.  So this really has to be intentional.  I’d love to know what you are doing to bring more experiences into your life.  I’m over on social @everydayhappinesswithkatie and we read and answer all of your DMs. 

 

 

 

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