Happiness Islands are those things that with very little time and energy or effort make you feel alive and inspired and just happy , right ? Like and you wanna identify those things and then see what you can do to schedule those things into your day . So for me , that means exercise for sure , we know that 30 minutes of a moderate exercise is the equivalent to taking a antidepressant and anti anxiety pill .
So thank you for that . And I mean that , um you know , so in response to the question , great question , I said that , you know , the first thing is this um lots of folks and I for good reason , they've let their schedules slip a little bit and now is a great time to schedule your life , you know , in ways that makes you increasingly um happy first and foremost , but also productive and helps you to feel good about yourself . So , like it's OK .
If you can sleep in , you wanna go to bed late , that's fine . But you want to create some structure for your life . And as part of that structure , what you want to be doing is you wanna be optimizing for the kinds of emotional experiences that you want your life ultimately to be about .
So for me , that means identifying what we call Happiness Islands . Happiness Islands are those things that with very little time and energy or effort make you feel alive and inspired and just happy , right ? Like and you wanna identify those things and then see what you can do to schedule those things into your day .
But you want to create some structure for your life . And as part of that structure , what you want to be doing is you wanna be optimizing for the kinds of emotional experiences that you want your life ultimately to be about . So for me , my day is just about getting work done and about getting chores done .
