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Stop Hoping for Happiness Tomorrow
Instead, use one of these 5 techniques to create it today.
The pursuit of happiness is without a doubt one of the greatest drivers in our lives.
Doesn’t the promise of future happiness get you out of bed in the morning? Doesn’t it help you get to school or work or wherever you might be going?
And, don’t we so frequently fantasize about the future because it’s only there that we will finally have all the things that will make us happy? Like a university degree, moving out of our parent’s basement, a promotion, the perfect partner, a sexy car?
The thing is, we’ve been here before. We’ve already pursued and attained other things we thought would bring us lasting happiness. And now, here we are again, chasing happiness.
The problem with pursuing happiness through the attainment of more and better is that happiness itself will almost always remain just over the horizon. Just out of reach.
If you spend your entire life chasing after happiness and never really getting there, is that a life well lived?
But if we shouldn’t be pursuing happiness, what should we be doing?
Happiness is fleeting
As an emotion, happiness is fleeting. As much as you’d like to imagine you have control…
