Get rid of imposed duties

Dr. Kenner says there are several obstacles to attaining happiness, and many of the obstacles are values we have been raised to believe will help us be happier. For example, she says devoting too much of your time and effort to helping people not only drains happiness from your life, it also takes an opportunity for someone else to be happy because they learned how to help themselves. She also says duties, or unchosen obligations, can be an obstacle to happiness. "There should be no such thing as these unchosen obligations, these imposed duties, because, really, you're violating your own mind if you try to make yourself act against your own good judgment or your own bad judgment, but you need to learn firsthand," she writes on her Web site, www.drkenner.com. [Source: WPTV]