What Makes You Happy?

Several months ago, I found this rubber stamp on the Impress Cards and Stamps website.  Impress also operates several brick and mortar stores that teach card making and sell rubber stamping supplies in the Seattle area.  The words on this stamp, Do More of What Makes You Happy, reminded me of something valuable I learned in my Brief Counseling class at Denver Seminary. 

Because my goal was to become a Hospital Chaplain (for which I also needed to be an ordained minister), I took far more Bible classes than I did counseling classes.  Anyhow, I thought I would share this nugget with you.  It comes from a counseling approach, Strategic Solution-Focused Therapy, we learned in Brief Counseling.  I still have many of my textbooks – so the information is accurate.  I added the words in parentheses.

When you encounter challenges – consider the following:

1. What’s the trouble?  If it’s (something's) not broke, don’t fix it.
2. If it (something) works, do more of it.
3. If it (something) doesn’t work, stop doing it, and do something different.

So, Do More of What Makes You Happy.  Within reason of course . . .