Why be happier? Simple: You’ll be more productive. People want to do the things that they love, and in some cases, that means doing other things that they don’t love in order to get to do the things they love later. However, it’s really easy to get to the end of doing all the things you hate (we are taught to put our most draining tasks early in the day so that they’re out of the way, after all), and not have any energy left to work on the things you love. When this continues for too long, it is easy to become extremely discouraged, depressed, and feel as though you just don’t “want” the things you love enough to deserve them.

To an extent, that may be true, but if you are already trying to squeeze every second out of every day, you may be trying to over-optimize your time. Or, to put it another way, you’re “all work and no play.” Here, I think we can find some of the most profound results we can get are in asking ourselves some very simple questions.
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