I like your list, and each of those points would make me happy,
Also,
1) Time with family.
2) Holding babies. --(my world becomes filled with love and tenderness)
3) Following toddlers. --(my world becomes filled with adventure, awe, and humor)
4) Writing. --(It makes me happy, yet is very hard. Ideas dry up quickly, and I've always given writing fairly low priority. Very puzzling. Yet I put out some 7,000 words of technical "writing" a week--and even that offers a form of happiness.)
5) Just being immersed in nature makes me happy. --I think for me, it is an "Asperger" place where I am exquisitely happy in a nonverbal, very sensual level--beautiful sights, bird and wind songs, touch of sunshine and breeze, smell of Earth.
6) Work with hands. -- I am superbly happy working in a garden, pulling weeds,or cleaning a house. Some creation of the environment around me is satisfying--and achieving situations where things are beautiful creates a beautiful feeling inside me.
7) Phone calls with children. --These are the high points of every week.
8) Spiritual impressions. --Times that reading the Book of Mormon has been a "multimedia" learning experience have been unforgettable. Those times have changed my life everlastingly, and they have been the anchors that have kept me in the faith.
9) Relaxing times with friends. --This is joyful, but rare in my busy life.
10) Finding some self understanding. --Learning that I likely have Aspergers was a freeing, forgiving, becoming comfortable with my life ongoing experience.
11) Gratitude. --Slowing my life and trying to record my blessings brings a tenderness and a happiness into my life that isn't there without that practice.
12) Helping students at school. --the day is filled with challenge, humor, love, and skill. Over a little time, resistance is overcome, and we work in a trusting, steady pace.
Yay!! Love your list. My list would include similar things as yours--family, babies, the spirit, gardens, journals, horses, etc.
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