What Makes You Successful Won’t Make You Happy
The only way to achieve things that most people don’t is to do what most people never do: sacrifice the present for tomorrow and work through pain. But those things will not lead to happiness. We need different traits to become happy. And some of those things are listed above.
Success and happiness are different
Happiness is a state of mind that only happens in the present moment.
- Success is a process with a beginning and an end. You set a goal, you start working on it, and you either succeed or fail. Either way, there’s a moment of reckoning. Happiness doesn’t have that moment.
What’s your default state of mind?
Your focus on a specific goal will help you to improve your life.
- The opposite is to do nothing and waste your life
- People who continuously preach that you should take it easy and not set goals should keep that to their own community of unambitious folks.
Prioritizing happiness today
Look at the source of your unhappiness, and get it out of your life.
- Overthinking
- Being in bad shape
- Dead-end career
- Toxic relationships
- Negative friends
- All of these things are within your control, so work on them first