The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Happiness is less a matter of what arrives than of what you are able to notice. Large sources of it are rare and mostly outside your control, while small ones are everywhere and go unregistered because they are ordinary. The skill is attention, the capacity to let a warm room, a good hour of work, or a familiar face actually land.

Choose one ordinary part of your day and give it your full attention for its whole length. No improving it, no doing something else at the same time. Notice what was in it that you had been missing.