The Evolution Of Happiness

My first experience snowboarding was in Austria when I was 30. I wasn't good at it. I didn't love it but I knew I wanted to get better at it. There was something about it that drove me to be better.

Shortly after I booked a snowboarding trip to Japan. I knew the snow would be amazing there, so I wanted to be good.

I didn't want to be left behind on the slopes. I wanted to master this skill.

I knew I had to get better so I travelled to Perisher a couple of months later to practice. 

I still wasn't as good as I wanted to be; but I kept trying. I kept trying so much, I broke my wrist.

I could of treated it as a setback but I didn't let it stop me. I was back out on the slopes a few weeks later, cast and all.

l improved. Then I got to Japan.

Japan is where I began to reach a flow state through snowboarding.

It became an experience like no other.

There’s nothing quite like “not trying to die” as a reason to be present.

Letting go of everything and being truly present in the moment.

An intrinsic satisfaction of being completely absorbed and a happiness born of letting go.

A feeling I was describe as being truly free.

A feeling I was describe as being truly free.

6 months after Japan I was jumping out of helicopters on top of mountain ranges in New Zealand.

Another step towards happiness and freedom.

The path to happiness might be found not in seeking happiness itself, but in losing oneself in the moments that truly matter.

Where is your happiness?