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Thoughts on Ambition and Happiness

This post is about the important role that ambition plays in our happiness and how unchecked or reckless ambition can make us deeply unhappy.

Laboring for Happiness

Any goal worth achieving requires sustained effort, focus, and drive.
Happiness is no different.
Commit yourself to happiness, prepare for setback, remain focused, and maintain your grasp firmly upon it once it is realized.

Embracing the Struggle for Happiness

Happiness is not experienced as dormant state of pleasure and indulgence. Happiness is created through the pursuit of ideals and embracing the struggle towards those ideals.

Thought for the Day: Happiness is a Habit

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” F.Matthias Alexander Like anything of significance, the realization of one’s ultimate happiness is a habit. Being happy begins with a choice but to reach the level of true, lasting, and meaningful happiness, requires habitual focus and effort. Making aContinue reading “Thought for the Day: Happiness is a Habit”

Happiness Requires Aim and Action

I define the ultimate success as becoming the ideal or best version of yourself. I use the word best rather than perfect because there is no perfection. The idea of a perfect version of oneself implies that there is a point at which further progress or improvement is impossible, the destination has been reached. PerfectionContinue reading “Happiness Requires Aim and Action”