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Set Your Goal

Why do we have goals? Everything we want - to achieve success, to pursue our dreams, to prove to ourselves that we can do it - are goals we set so that ultimately it leads to us feeling fulfilled, to us being happy.

So the main reason why we have goals, or even the only reason - is that it leads to  this ultimate goal of our happiness.

Goals, however, by nature are things that aren't so easy to achieve. It's definitely not a walk in the park. And therefore there's always this sense of pressure in us trying to achieve our goals. This pressure isn't bad, because it can give us a sense of urgency and motivate us to be disciplined and to work hard.

It only becomes a problem when our goals bring us suffering, suffering that we've accepted as a normal part of achieving our goals, like stress, anxiety, worry or fear.

This is why some people feel trapped by their success - that they cannot leave this amazing job or business that they have but yet at the same time they don't feel fulfilled or happy.

This is because the real goal all along was not a promotion, or more money or more power, but simply more happiness. And happiness doesn’t have to be earned or pursued, it just has to be realised.

We need to be aware of the difference between fulfilling our potential, or fulfilling the need our ego has to feel important and validated. 🕸Because the former brings us closer to happiness, and the latter takes us further from happiness.

Ambitions, dreams, success - we make the choices for ourselves to achieve our goals and to realise our potential, and we cannot let the choices we make make us suffer. Because if we're present in this very moment, if we live this moment and breath this moment, then we'll see that there is no future happiness. There is no other time than now, to be happy, always.