Happiness Now

Marilyn Tam
4 min readNov 16, 2019
Happiness is celebrating your birth day everyday. Be happy that you were born.

Really. You can choose happiness

One early morning, during her annual visit to Hong Kong, my mother had a massive stroke alone in her bed. She laid there, eyes wide with terror, unable to move, gurgling and rasping for help until her friend in the next room found her. My mother, who once arrived at my future place of employment — the corporate headquarters of Reebok International Inc. — unannounced, demanding to see the CEO and chairman…

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Marilyn Tam

Marilyn Tam, global speaker, best selling author (The Happiness Choice), business leader and humanitarian. Formerly the CEO of Aveda, President Reebok, VP Nike