{"id":4688,"date":"2016-10-03T13:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T00:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2016-10-03T13:47:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T00:47:50","slug":"engineering-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/engineering-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We are the sum of our habits<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Our subconscious habitual decisions are what drive our lives.<\/p>\n<p>All these little things; like whether we eat breakfast or not, we go to the gym, or rush to work, these habits impact the rest of our day.<\/p>\n<p>A question then worth asking: Are our habits engineered towards happiness?<\/p>\n<p>I think this is a fascinating topic, what I did last year was sit down and work on what do I do on my best days.<\/p>\n<p>This came down to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A good breakfast<\/li>\n<li>Catching up with friends or peers<\/li>\n<li>Reading<\/li>\n<li>Eating well<\/li>\n<li>Focused at work, satisfied with what I worked on today<\/li>\n<li>A bit of exercise<\/li>\n<li>Quality time with my wife<\/li>\n<li>Doing all the little errands or tidy ups, so that I don&#8217;t think about them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I have those in my day, it&#8217;s a great day.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s ingrained into everyday routine.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s worth asking yourself &#8211; what things do I do that create a banger of a day?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are the sum of our habits. Our subconscious habitual decisions are what drive our lives. All these little things; like whether we eat breakfast or not, we go to the gym, or rush to work, these habits impact the rest of our day. A question then worth asking: Are our habits engineered towards happiness? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5463,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/5463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}