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Happiness according to Joey Reyes

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Success is not the key to happiness. Living a happy life, rather, is a choice and is one of the keys to true success. This is according to multi-awarded writer and director, Jose Javier Reyes, who served as the inspirational speaker during the formal opening of Ad Summit Pilipinas 2016.

“I am responsible for my own happiness. Nobody can tell you how you can be happy,” Reyes declared as he shared his life lessons to the more than 2,000 advertising and marketing practitioners in the plenary hall of the Subic Bay Exhibition and Convention Center.

In his talk, Reyes revealed more about his personal and professional experiences while working with different people in various industries. 

Multi-awarded writer and director Jose Javier Reyes in a talk during the Ad Summit Pilipinas 2016

“You choose to be happy because you learn the differences between your wants and your needs. You need to appreciate your strengths but you should also accept your limitations. Because by choosing to be happy, you must accept that no one is perfect,” he explained.

Reyes, who has set up his own production company, Available Light, began his career as a college instructor at De La Salle University teaching literature before transitioning into writing and film.  

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A Gawad Urian and Metro Film Festival awardee, he is best-known for his works, including the blockbuster hits Pahiram ng Isang Umaga, Batang PX, and Kasal Kasali Kasalo.

“It is really okay to fail, and sometimes it is more fun to fail than to be successful, because in failure you realize how much it is that you need to be happier rather than to be merely successful. No one in the world gets everything he wants,” he continued. 

A proud senior citizen, Reyes, 61, also noted that it is important to be “fulfilled” than to be merely successful. “You cannot define happiness through the eyes of others. Stop comparing yourself to others.”

At the end of his talk, Reyes shared his five cardinal rules for a happier life: Choose your battles; before people get tired of you, get tired of yourself; remember that there is no such thing as “acting your age;” you can only be interesting as you are interested; and most importantly, be grateful.

“It is never about how much you have but how you get them. It is never how much you accumulated, but how you get that. You can be the biggest box-office success, you can be the most promising artist in media—but then, when that moment comes, it is not how far you have come but what you have become to get there,” he concluded.

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