1) Starbucks Coffee Frappuccino
It tastes good and makes me feel good. I don't know why. Its just that good. Too bad its actually bottled by Pepsi. Co. Stuff like "it tastes good, makes me feel good" can't really be marketed either though. Rats.
2) Pho
The broth is light and delicious and reminds me of childhood meals with my grandparents. I douse the meat with Hoisin sauce and it is so.damn.good.
3) Guy Kawasaki
He's so smart and amazing and "revolutionary". Too bad truemors is kind of lame. Thats what happens when good marketers try to develop products without good engineers.
4) My friend Jolly
She always calls me on my bullshit and I think she cares about me. She's quirky like I am. She's just a good friend.
5) Being in a state of Flow
Flow is when you are given the appropriate challenge to your skillsets.
according to wikipedia:
Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing, characterized by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.
As Csikszentmihalyi sees it, components of an experience of flow can be specifically enumerated; he presents the following:
1. Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernible and goals are attainable and align appropriately with one's skill set and abilities).
2. Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention (a person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it).
3. A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the merging of action and awareness.
4. Distorted sense of time - one's subjective experience of time is altered.
5. Direct and immediate feedback (successes and failures in the course of the activity are apparent, so that behavior can be adjusted as needed).
6. Balance between ability level and challenge (the activity is neither too easy nor too difficult).
7. A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.
8. The activity is intrinsically rewarding, so there is an effortlessness of action.
9. When in the flow state, people become absorbed in their activity, and focus of awareness is narrowed down to the activity itself, action awareness merging (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975. p.72).
Not all are needed for flow to be experienced.
