The best way to demonstrate this, for me, is this:
Am I effective?
Am I efficient?
Am I harmonious?
Bill talks about three attributes: happiness, peace, and usefulness.
It's important not to get the cart before the horse. The cart is usefulness, pulled by the horses of happiness and then peace.
Note the order:
Spirit
Mind
Body
Happiness is a state of the spirit
Peace is a state of the mind
Usefulness is a dynamic parameter of the body
Spiritual welfare always precedes material welfare.
A much more important demonstration of these principles lies in our respective homes, occupations, and affairs does not mean they come first:
It means that the practice of the programme, which is the most important thing, is demonstrated in these areas, but the practice of the programme is what comes first.
The focus remains on building a relationship with God, which is the only thing that really matters, and which is the thing, which, if successfully pursued, is attained in its pursuit, and automatically confers all other benefits, without any effort on our part.
The effort is entirely placed on building a relationship with God.
There is therefore effort.
But even that is not exerted as a direct act of the will:
The act of the will is to deliberately face the horror of the ego's lies in every thought it pumps like squid ink into my mind, blinding me from the path back to God.
This is why the Steps have to be worked and reworked.
Not just once: repeatedly.
Your Candy Crush Saga has multiple levels, and you never complain about that!
Make this fun: make recoiling at the gruesome plots of the ego the game, and God rushes in automatically, and, once God rushes in, the curtain falls, the show is over, and the hero of the dream is dead. But I am alive, and liberated from its mask. That’s the pudding the proof of which is in the eating.