often did. Armed with our building blocks of joy, we decided to build a new experience we’d look forward to: We got out the dark-chocolate-covered almonds. We put on “Feeling Good” by Michael Bublé in the background (on repeat). We treated it more like a date than a mundane obligation. That was when I noticed an element of the meeting I’d previously overlooked: the whole exercise involved tidying up a messy area, the family finances! Just noticing that creating order out of chaos was a part of the experience gave me a tangible and immediate benefit. We turned a task we had in the past barely
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