The Onion, burritos, short-term pleasure, and long-term happiness and emotional reward
The great satirical online newspaper The Onion illustrated one of my favorite stepping-stones to creating the life you want. I wrote about it in this relevant post, "A model that will bring you happiness." They didn't realize they were onto something more effective than they thought, but their description of how deeply changing your environment can change your mood shows a great way to start changing your life -- whether you want to get more things done, feel happier, avoid feeling miserable, or whatever. It's a big deal to realize things in your environment you can directly control can consistently, predictably, and reliably create emotions you want. Combine that with knowing you can control your beliefs and behavior and some practice and you can create…
