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The way we spend our time can be put into three “bottles”. These are the Necessary Tasks Bottle, the Voluntary Tasks Bottle and the Happiness Bottle.

Every day, we spend time 1． the Necessary Tasks Bottle with useful things, like making money, doing housework, and paying bills.

We then fill 2． bottle with Voluntary Tasks. These are things we do for others, we may not enjoy, but we do them anyway. This bottle gets filled with tasks like taking children to activities, cooking family meals, and washing clothes for family.

3．, we often forget to fill the third bottle—the Happiness Bottle. This is the bottle we fill with activities that make us happy. Is your Happiness Bottle sometimes 4． at the end of the day? Between doing all the Necessary and Voluntary Tasks, time flies by, and before we know, it is time for bed. We all have days like that.

This is why each day we have to try to fill out Happiness Bottle. I fill mine by going to the dancing class. And I always leave classes more 5． than when I arrive. This week, I had fun joining in a guitar practice in my neighborhood. We showed our musical talent and

The challenge for each of us is to not let the day go by 6． filling our Happiness Bottle. That takes some planning. Many of us probably need to 7． happiness activities down on our schedule (日程表). If we don’t do that, we will have to fill our schedule with those Necessary and Voluntary Tasks.

Think about how your 8． is being spent. Are you doing enough activities that bring joy to your life? Or are the Necessary and Voluntary Tasks using up all your time? At the end of the day, hopefully we’ve done all we can to make sure that our Happiness Bottle is filled.