I’m gonna ask to you about what do you expect every morning as you woke yourself up from the bed. At least, the first time you open your eyes and start to think about how would it be for today. For some time you may thought that today is the most beautiful day ever since you have settled plan to hang out with your mates all day long. Maybe a week trip to Bahamas. But, if today were Monday, most of us would get the workload that we’re gonna deal with from morning until the sun sets down. Okay, that’s the prologue, and the next question for you is about the way you thought yourself and how you cope with them. Satisfied or dissatisfied. Happy or unhappy.

Before we proceed with the your answer, I will offer some informations and news which linked with happiness issue.

THE World Database of Happiness, in Rotterdam, collects all the available information about what makes people happy and why. According to the research, married, extroverted optimists are happier than single, pessimistic introverts, and Republicans are happier than Democrats. Nurses enjoy life more than bankers, and it helps to be religious, sexually active and a college graduate with a short commute to work. The wealthy experience more mirth than the poor, but not much. Most people say they are happy, but perhaps that is because they are expected to be.

I grabbed the news from the economist.com which revealed the search of happiness that becoming more scientific. Notice the vice versa fact which can be read that nurses are happier than bankers. How could that be? Simply we can see that bankers are far wealthier than any nurses, bankers make more money and profits rather than nurses, thus drive us to thoughts that bankers are the happiest person. But the reality told the other fact.

Nurses enjoy more life since they’re likely to meet another person and interact socially with them with more heart full content. Bankers did the same but with the different content, they meet with other people but tend to deceive their business partners. Nurses open their communications to patients with honest feelings rather than pretending to hide their certain purposes likely as most bankers did.

The articles above told us about happiness based on the occupations. How about the people’s origin? Where is the happiest person in the world? Eric Weiner’s “Geography of Bliss” searches out this “where” of the happiness question by traveling from Switzerland to India.

Weiner, a correspondent for National Public Radio and a self-described grumpy person, begins his head-spinning, ambitious search in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, with Ruut Veenhoven, who runs the World Database of Happiness and is the “godfather of happiness research.” Based on the information in this extensive database, Weiner locates the countries with the highest and lowest overall ranking, pulls out his credit card and starts traveling.

He then found the happiness in Bhutan lies on “knowing your limitation; knowing how much is enough”, the British called themselves as happy person as if they have their work in progress. The Thailand people used to say happiness is having a “cool heart,” remaining calm and not thinking too much, while In India, happiness is contradiction—aggravation mixed with epiphany, discovery of the “little gems amid the grubbiness.” And in the United States, happiness seems to be in the search for happiness.

The result, there was no happiest place on earth, because the happiness does have its own parameters in each country. And the fact bring you out to the later question: how do you state yourself as being happy person? Is it the wealth, the career, the family, or…. (you’d better described it yourself since what we’re talking here is about yourself)

For me, happy is a state that I can still have conscious and control upon myself, even if when I’m in anger, or down with sadness. Happy is about how nice I found myself as a nice person. Happy is about perceiving myself as the way it is. As long as I know that I’m able to cope with every problems that may occur, I’m happy.

It is the sixth day since I started the first post, and guess what.. The old days enemy has return back. “The Laziness”, that’s what I used to call it. I’m sure that every one of should had ever met him. He usually comes after few days we start a brand new idea. By  its strength and also our weakness, we can just stop to provide our blog with contents. Say it,“I’m kinda unwell today. Let’s just update it for tomorrow”. The next day,“I’m working a lot of stuff right now, and it seem I haven’t enough time to work on contents”. The next day, we keep stumbling on another excuse. And as the time goes, at some point we realize, we have left our blog abandoned.

The first day I wrote the post, I had a will that I should fill the blog everyday. Every single day. Just to take care of what I’ve had and preserve it. You know, search engines loves the blogs that always update. New fresh things. Fresh ideas. Of course with another optimization stuffs. Thus, the most simple idea to keep your blog indexed by the search engines is keep posting as often as possible.

I read a book about how to make money from writing articles. Simply, the book do not preach about how you do the writing, the techniques, the punctuation marks, and tons of things that are practical. But, it’s about how eager are you to preserve the will to write. The whole book tells about commitment building.

On one section, I found “The Laziness” was explained. The characteristics and the way to overture it. “The Laziness” can be described as a state of a child which is free, spoil, and uncontrollable but, also can be tamed. Remember, children get to their enthusiasm whenever offered with candies and toys, and then it’s so easy to them to ask for taking bitter medicine, or cleanup their own bedroom.

We can treat “The Laziness” just as we treat a child. Try to set up with ease when we started to get bored about writing. Turn on the computer while saying to ourself that we’re going to have a word games. I’m gonna type everything which comes instantly inside my head. Usually, it works. On the previous day, I started to type about coffee, sugar, and water, and a little about my activity in the morning. In the middle of the games, I found another idea about how I should end the post.  The result? I think it’s good enough to read.

But, how if it doesn’t worked? How if I’ve tried to type jumbling words, but in the middle I still couldn’t solve about what should I end this writing?

Well, success doesn’t come anytime we want, buddy. Sometimes we failed. In a matter of stuck moment, we can just type in our editor: “Today I failed to write. I’ve tried to type anything and every words that came up in my head, but it jut didn’t made up a good post which I wanted. Maybe I can try it for the next day. Maybe I’m just unlucky.”

There we go! We had just posted a paragraph. One paragraph of failed-to-write confession has provide us a real paragraph. And we post it. That means we’re not failed at all for the day. See..

I know that blogging is not about a clap of hands nor just swing of the witchcraft’s wands. Bloggers are professionals. Professionals holds commitment. No matter the result: succeed or not, blogging is just a process.
Talking about writing and blogging, Daniel told me about his long-term blogging strategy in his blog. I think it’s worth for you to read.

I made a cup of coffee this morning. 1 spoon of black coffee, 1 spoon of creamer, and 2 spoon of sugar. Usually I made those coffee by adding them into the mug in order as follows: the coffee, the creamer, and the sugar.

But, this morning I want to did it in reverse. I’ve put the sugar first, the creamer, and then the coffee. I poured hot water into the mug and try to have a sip while it’s still hot. I noticed no difference. There were no difference because it was made up by the same ingredients, and just an exchanged order.

The next day, I’ll may pour the hot water first, and then the three stuffs. Will I have a different taste? I’ll guess prematurely that it would not have a different taste at all.

But what I’m going to write down here is about how we eager to try a different way to do something. Something that just looks the same. If you go to the office the same way everyday, wouldn’t you get bored? If you asked the same thing everyday wouldn’t it be annoyed?

Nothing new under the sun. And we’re just repeating what the old stuffs used to, but in different ways.