The holiday, promotion, and exciting project are just the means - vehicles to get us the good feelings, like a finger pointing to the moon. However, if we focus too intently on the finger, we may end up taking the finger to be the moon, missing out on the beautiful sights of Heaven altogether.

Here's an anecdote: Two brothers decided to come on This Side. When asked why they wanted so much to visit Earth, both replied that they simply wanted to feel good. They had heard of many wonderful things happening down there.

Upon arriving, the elder brother discovered that money could buy him things, permitting him to feel good. So he decided to amass a fortune, thinking that the more money he had, the more he'd be able to feel good. Now there is nothing wrong in having money, but for him, money became the finger pointing to the moon. He had forgotten about the moon and the beautiful sights of Heaven. His obsession was so intense that he felt anxious, aggressive, and suspicious whenever he felt threatened by the loss of his money.

The beautiful sights of Heaven were replaced by the little finger that made him feel bad. He had mistaken the finger to be the moon.

Meanwhile, the younger brother discovered the sea, sex, and sun; he felt good lying all day on the beach and making whoopee at night. He took it easy. He simply went fishing whenever he was hungry.

Now, initially these two men wanted to feel good, but did not take the same vehicles to reach their objectives.

They later compared notes on the Other Side. The one obsessed by money, who had thought that money would bring him all the goodies, failed miserably to attain his objective on Earth. He depended too heavily on one source - money.

His younger brother scored remarkably well; he felt good most of the time while on This Side, though he had little money. He had no worries, was carefree, and appreciated what he had. He really was in paradise!

Now, what do we make out of it?

Of course, we naturally want to feel good. But our desires are often crushed by You want / You can't / What's going to happen? / You're going to lose! - the Gang of Four.

Whenever you have negative feelings like heaviness, anxiety, anger, frustration, or discouragement, it's a sure sign that this Gang of Four is beating you up. How can you lessen the pain? By taking a DDD pill!

What's that?

DDD stands for Desireless Diet Day, which stops our negative emotions and puts us in a positive thinking mode.

It means simply cutting down on desires you can't fulfil immediately: like wanting someone to call you, hoping to be invited to next week's party, hoping your client will sign a contract today, wanting your boss to be nice... The list can be long!

Just focus on what you have now, and think about what you can do with what you have now! If you want to call someone now – provided you have a telephone, you can! You want to have a coffee, take a shower, work on your computer – if those things are available, you can! This way, you'll never be attacked by the Gang of Four. You'll feel good each time because you're focusing on what you have - not on what you'd like to have.

But you may ask: does this mean cutting all desires? Not at all! Just transform your desires into strategies. If you desire a more rewarding job, spend time now creating job options, then start your action plan and send out your CVs. You're back to You want / You can DDD mode.

You can feel good all day long and control a situation by focusing on the things you have and on what you can do with what you have. Just make a list of what you have. Eyes, legs, tongue, Google, friends, job, driver's license... This list can be a mile long!!!

You have legs, take a walk. Some can't. You have eyes, go watch something you like. Whichever vehicles you choose – and you can have many vehicles, and change them – whether you're rich or poor, as long as you feel good each day, you score points.

And to feel good depends on our reactions to people, on our reactions to situations. What is important is how we choose to react. If we keep an inner smile all day long, we will score 7, 8, or 9 points out of 10, and be on our way to attaining our real objective in life – that is feeling good today, tomorrow... and forever.