陈从信，字思齐，亳州永城人。恭谨强力，心计精敏。太宗在晋邸，令典财用，王宫事无大小悉委焉。累官右知客押衙。开宝三年秋，三司言：仓储月给止及明年二月，请分屯诸军尽率民船，以资江、淮漕运。太祖大怒，责之曰：“国无九年之蓄曰不足，尔不素计而使仓储垂尽，乃请吞并括民船以运，是可卒致乎？今设汝安用？苟有所阙，当罪汝以谢众！”三司使楚昭辅惧，诣太宗求宽释，使得尽力。
    太宗既许，召从信问之，对曰：“从信尝游楚、泗，知粮运之患。良以舟人之食，日历郡县勘给，是以凝滞。若自发舟计日往复并支，可以责其程限。又楚、泗运米于舟，至京复辇入仓，宜宿备运卒，令即时出纳，如此，每运可减数十日。楚、泗至京千里，旧八十日一运，一岁三运。若去淹留之虚日，则岁可增一运焉。今三司欲籍民舟，若不许，则无以责办，许之，则冬中京师薪炭殆绝矣。不若募舟之坚者漕粮，其损败者任载薪炭，则公私俱济。今市米腾贵官价斗钱七十贾者失利无敢致于京师虽居商厚储亦匿而不粜是以米益贵民将饿殍。若听民自便，即四方奔凑，米多而价自贱矣。”太宗明日具奏，太祖可之，其事果集焉。
    太宗即位，迁东上阁门使，充枢密都承旨。会八作副使綦廷珪，因疾假满不落籍，愈日不朝参，即入班中，宣徽使潘美、王仁赡并坐夺奉一季，从信与阁门使商凤责授闲厩使、阁门祗候，余抵罪有差。太平兴国三年，改左卫将军，复为枢密都承旨。太宗征并、汾，以为大内副部署。七年，坐秦王廷美事，以本官罢。明年，分使三部，以从信为度支使，赐第于浚仪宝积坊，加右卫大将军。九年，卒，年七十三，赠太尉。

（《宋史·陈从信传》）

    Your life is composed of all the little things we experience everyday, and knowing how to find joy in some of those little things is one of the easiest ways to let happiness slowly fill your cup. In order for that to happen, you need to do two very simple things, put yourself in such situations that you can experience happiness there, and then find a way to savour the experience and let it sink into you.

    To put yourself in the position of experiencing happiness every day, Lahan Catalino, Ph.D, at the University of California, San Francisco, recommends an approach called “prioritizing positivity”—organizing your day-to-day life on purpose so that it contains situations which naturally give rise to positive emotions. It involves both carving out time in your daily routine to do things that you really love and heavily weighing the positive emotional consequences of major life decisions, like taking a new job, and you will regularly find yourself.

    Then how can we find away to savour the happy experience and let it sink into you? Here is what psychologist Rick Hanson, the author of Buddha's Brain explains.

    Let a good fact become a good experience.

    Often we go through life and some good thing happens—a little thing like we checked off an item on our To Dc list, we survived another day at work, the flowers are blooming, and so forth. Hey, this is an opportunity to feel good. Don't leave the money lying on the table: recognize that this is an opportunity to let yourself truly feel good.

    Really enjoy this positive experience.

    Practice what any school teacher knows: if you want to help people learn something, make it as intense as possible—in this case, as felt in the body as possible—for as long as possible.

    When sinking into this experience, sense your intention that this experience is sinking into you.

    Sometimes people do this through visualization, like by sensing a golden light coming into themselves or a soothing balm inside themselves. You might imagine a jewel going into the treasure chest in your heart—or just know that this experience is sinking into you, becoming a resource you can take with you no matter where you go.

    It might seem a little cliche to say“stop and smell the roses”, but it's moments like those that can be stored in your happiness bank and withdrawn later. Living a happy life can be as simple as accepting the happiness that's already around you. If you want more, it's OK to go out and achieve it, but don't forget where happiness really comes from.