Happiness, A Hamster Wheel
When placed in the wrong things in your life, happiness can be fleeting. One day you’re high on your own supply to then becoming completely empty the next. Some days happiness can be like the weather. Unpredictable and at times random. Especially when you’re relying on the happiness to come from somewhere, other than within yourself. When you look for it in other people. When you look for it in your results. Or achievements. It all comes back to you. Happiness is internal. Not external.
Work at something. Succeed at doing it. Once you succeed, that level of success is your new minimum, your new floor. So then, you aim your sight at the next thing, the next level. Because you place your happiness on status, money, rewards, or recognition. So your current level is not enough. So you work hard again. You succeed again. Oh wait, a new level, means a new minimum. Keep going…
Harvey Firestone founder of the tire company Firestone reflects on the simple, happy life, before becoming rich and famous:
“Sometimes it seems that it might be better to go back to those simpler days, that one might get more out of a less complex life. But it cannot be done. One changes with prosperity. We all think we should like to lead the simple life, and then we find that we have picked up a thousand little habits which we are quite unconscious of because they are a part of our very being and these habits are not in the simple life. There is no going back except as a broken man.” - Harvey Firestone
Thought Provoking Questions : Where are you placing your happiness now?
Dan Roman is a writer that releases a daily meditation. A quick read. Sharing wisdom and asking thought-provoking questions. Influenced by the obstacles, success and failures in life and of others. Using history, books, current events, philosophy, and ancient wisdom. These writings are actionable, thought-provoking, designed to make your life better.
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