There was a time in my life when I was very confused and I was definitely not full of authentic happiness. My whole life had "turned out" just as I'd thought it would. I graduated school, I got a job and a wonderful place to live. I had friends, family, plus a meaningful relationship. When I looked to my future, it was filled with vivid, pleasant days. The part that I hadn't planned on was how unsettling it was to achieve my goals. Once achieved, I didn't know what to do then.
I began to feel unfulfilled and I couldn't pinpoint why. I tried all sorts of remedies: I switched from walking to jogging, I aquired candles to create a house "nest", I tried reading different books, yoga, and on and on. As the weeks stacked up on each other, my distress mounted, as well as my days started to be hazier. My sense of time warped, each day seeming longer and more directionless than the last. I asked myself how I would ever find authentic happiness again. My shiny future was now lack-luster. I had made the mistake of thinking that my life had "turned out", rather than recognizing that we all keep growing and challenge ourselves daily. Life is growth and human beings are a portion of life. Life doesn't stay stagnant and neither do we.
One balmy day at the beach, my entire objective suddenly flipped and my life started in a whole new direction. As I passed a lone girl walking in the yellow sand, a bolt of energy struck through me and I heard a voice say to me, "What if you could possibly help individuals get past the thoughts and feelings that cause them pain?" That question shattered that old lens through which I viewed life. I now saw that I was to put my life to good use for other people. Despite the hot sun's rays on my skin, I got a chill, due to the fact I knew that I was back on my own path to authentic happiness.
I could see that I had achieved goals to get my own unique, fundamental needs satisfied: an education, a job, along with a residence. But, whenever my life purpose flipped, it consequently flipped my goals, also. For the first time, I observed that getting my own survival needs met was not how to measure the quality of my entire life. I recognized, deep-down, the difference between making value (money) and creating value which would lead to money. I knew that creating value was to be the focus of my next set of goals; it could bring an end to the months of difficulty and confusion and I would find authentic happiness again.
This didn't mean that all I'd done leading up to that moment in time was in useless, because, for me, finding out how to earn money was a totally necessary prerequisite with regard to learning how to create value. Everything leading up to that moment was done to help me to achieve goals which I didn't even realize I had. My mindset was reawakened, my hidden doubts were destroyed, and I was vitalized with my brand new purpose - I felt authentic happiness once yet again.
I began to feel unfulfilled and I couldn't pinpoint why. I tried all sorts of remedies: I switched from walking to jogging, I aquired candles to create a house "nest", I tried reading different books, yoga, and on and on. As the weeks stacked up on each other, my distress mounted, as well as my days started to be hazier. My sense of time warped, each day seeming longer and more directionless than the last. I asked myself how I would ever find authentic happiness again. My shiny future was now lack-luster. I had made the mistake of thinking that my life had "turned out", rather than recognizing that we all keep growing and challenge ourselves daily. Life is growth and human beings are a portion of life. Life doesn't stay stagnant and neither do we.
One balmy day at the beach, my entire objective suddenly flipped and my life started in a whole new direction. As I passed a lone girl walking in the yellow sand, a bolt of energy struck through me and I heard a voice say to me, "What if you could possibly help individuals get past the thoughts and feelings that cause them pain?" That question shattered that old lens through which I viewed life. I now saw that I was to put my life to good use for other people. Despite the hot sun's rays on my skin, I got a chill, due to the fact I knew that I was back on my own path to authentic happiness.
I could see that I had achieved goals to get my own unique, fundamental needs satisfied: an education, a job, along with a residence. But, whenever my life purpose flipped, it consequently flipped my goals, also. For the first time, I observed that getting my own survival needs met was not how to measure the quality of my entire life. I recognized, deep-down, the difference between making value (money) and creating value which would lead to money. I knew that creating value was to be the focus of my next set of goals; it could bring an end to the months of difficulty and confusion and I would find authentic happiness again.
This didn't mean that all I'd done leading up to that moment in time was in useless, because, for me, finding out how to earn money was a totally necessary prerequisite with regard to learning how to create value. Everything leading up to that moment was done to help me to achieve goals which I didn't even realize I had. My mindset was reawakened, my hidden doubts were destroyed, and I was vitalized with my brand new purpose - I felt authentic happiness once yet again.
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