One day I was fortunate enough to find myself reading Think Simple Now, Tina Su’s personal development blog. I thought the content was amazing, and asked her if she would like to guest post on my blog. About a week after that interaction, I visited Tina’s blog again just to find she had 2,000 more subscribers than the last time I checked.

Tina Su is a super star, and I take pride in the fact that I saw that from the start. Tina’s personal mission is to bring more happiness and fulfillment to the lives of others. Tina does more exciting things, than most people do in their life time.

Why does she do them all? I’ll let Tina answer that:

Why do I do it all? The answer is simple: Because I love it! With practice, I’ve gotten pretty good at living life with very few limitations. I consciously choose everything that is in my life, literally. I am not listing all this to impress you, but rather to impress-upon you that it is possible to do the things you love, to live the life you create, and to do so without any stress. I’ve learned that the secret is: to simply Decide, and then dive in with massive action. Clarity is power. A clear decision to do or have anything carries with it energy that can fuel you to follow through.

Tina burst onto the blogging scene and has accomplished in 3 months what people only dream of. Tina did this with concrete goals & focus, content creation, & getting the word out. What that means is she used all available resources in order to make her blog a raging success in as little time as possible.

1. How do you define happiness?

Happiness is a feeling that can only be defined by ourselves. For me, it is a sense of connectedness with myself and with those around me; a feeling of contentment and intense energy surges over me.

2. On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your happiness now, versus when you were a child?

I have difficulty gauging how happy I was when I was younger, probably because when I was a child, I was in so much joy that I was not pondering the concept of happiness or how to measure it.

I can tell you that right now, I would rate myself at 8.

3. What do you do on a daily basis that brings you happiness? (and how consistent is the feeling of happiness throughout your day)

Gratitude: spend time each day to be thankful for all the wonders from this day and in my life.

Connecting with people: share moments of meaningful exchange with friends and family.

Meditation: share moments of meaningful exchange with myself.

Learning & Growing: take the opportunity to make a difference each day. Make it worthwhile.

If I simply practice gratitude and remind myself to be grateful, then I will be happy throughout the day.

4. What things take away from your happiness? What can be done to lessen their impact or remove them from your life?

Living in the future or dwelling in the past. Meanwhile, forgetting about the now.

What can be done is aiming to bring conscious awareness in everything that we do. Do things with fully and with absolute focus.

5. What do you plan on doing in the future that will bring you even more happiness?

Rather than more happiness, I am aiming to bring sustainable and continuous happiness into my life. I feel that the idea of chasing more happiness is what keeps us bound to seeking it from outside of ourselves. I plan on spending more introspective time with myself and learning how continuous happiness can be found from within me. I plan on focusing more of my energy towards reading, writing, self-dates and photography.

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To get more info about what the Happiness Project is and isn’t, please visit the Introduction Post. To see a running list of all participants, which I will be updating as things happen, please visit the Happiness Project Page.