The HAPPY seed takes root

So far we have discussed the concept of I VOTE HAPPY or at least introduced it to you.  As you recall I had been unhappy in my life, feeling like I was doing everything for everyone else because THEY wanted me to make THEM happy – while completely disregarding the basic human need to make YOURSELF happy and THEY couldn’t understand why I wasn’t happy.  I was using all of my time to make other people happy and ignoring my own personal happiness.  After that conversation with my sister a seed was planted in my brain that became I VOTE HAPPY (or IVH – because it makes me happy to use acronyms;)).  A few conversations later, some doodling on a scrap of paper, and I was off to save (hubris, I know, but eureka moments like this fill you with a purpose!), or at least change, the world.  

I had to make some changes in my own life that were painful but necessary. We’ve all been there, and I don’t want to cast any bad vibes about so I’ll leave the details out. Once I had accepted and completed the necessary changes in my life I met a wonderful person who shared this philosophy and her passion for all that life has to offer equals or exceeds my own – it was a meeting of the minds that would fuel my passion to spread happiness to everyone that I could reach.   Our discussions about the concept of IVH led to the core questions of – “Is this too much? Too Grandiose?” – we both decided rapidly that this was a goal worth undertaking.  

After this, I talked with anyone who would listen, and although most “got it” it was suggested more than once that I develop some sort of tactile, article ( big words for —a thing, something to look at).  We added to the original doodle, deciding I should develop  T-shirts , and sell them at a fair price. On a flight home from Maine, I drew up a “ 5 year business plan” that included T-shirts and a website, and set off to pursue it. In my mind at that point I had a website, products, an appearance on OPRAH, and dozens of IVH products were available everywhere!  I figured this ought to take about a year to be popular throughout the good ole USA…alas, with all things in life that are truly worthwhile, time and sweat are required to make a dream into reality.  And gradually, the road ahead became clear…

  

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