Happiness versus Success

Reassess your Happiness versus your Success
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We spend months or even years working on a goal and finally achieve it.

Only to find it doesn’t bring us Happiness.

We can easily fall into the trap of ‘I will be happy when’.

If we focus on benchmarking our Happiness to goals we set for the future, we maybe setting ourselves up for disappointment.

Happiness is a CHOICE and should not depend on our goals.

So, how can we separate success from Happiness?

Thinking that we will be happy when a wish comes true, is like hoping to win in a lottery ticket.

Even when our wish comes true, we aren’t happy. 

The novelty of it wears off soon and we get obsessed with something else.

We begin to focus in the next ‘big step’.

We tend to overestimate and exaggerate the difference that step would make in our lives.

The hope of being happy on achieving certain milestones is fundamentally an illusion.

Perhaps Happiness doesn’t happen when we achieve success.

Can we not CHOOSE to be happy TODAY?

Is Success the key to Happiness?
Or
Is Happiness the key to Success?

Would love to hear your perspectives in the comments below.

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