People who report being the happiest in life tend to be the very same people who report being the most miserable at other times: (see Staying Sane: How to Make Your Mind Work for You by Raj Persaud.) True happiness would consist of contentment and meeting ones basic emotional needs which includes a need to feel useful and stretched.
I may assume that winning the lottery would automatically put me on the fast track to a happy life ever more but not having to work (whilst great at first) prevents me meeting the need to feel stretched and significant unless I can somehow meet the need for purpose within my newly (financially) enriched life style.
On the uncommon knowledge hypnotherapy diploma course our studends are encouraged to get clients to really describe in detail what they mean by the term ‘happy’ and to think in depth how having more happiness in their future lives would work in reality above and beyond just a vague idea.
People are not good at predicting just what will make them happy or unhappy in the future. We are not good at predicting our true emotional responses to future events.
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