It is amazing how people think they are going to be happy or successful only when they achieve their dreams, their destination. This kind of obsessively future centric approach takes away a really important part of your life, which is the present moment.
Think about it, life really is a series of present moments and yet the irony is that most people in an obsessive pursuit for the future, forget to truly live and enjoy the present moment and then when the present moment becomes the past they obsessively regret about not having truly enjoyed their past!
The only destination we all truly share is the grave, please don’t postpone happiness until you get to that moment.
To become truly successful, start finding joy in the journey. It may be painful, it may not be as financially rewarding as you hoped, it may give you stress but there is always at least some joy you can extract out of life whether it is alone or with friends or whether it is in your work itself. If you can’t find anything to be happy about right now, chances are you won’t find anything to be happy about even when you achieve your goal.
Opportunities are everywhere- Look Around…
We often complain about a lack of opportunities. The truth is there are opportunities in every situation, they may just not be the kind of opportunities you are used to or expect.
Opportunities are close to infinite, you just need to have the awareness to spot what works great, just like close to infinite pieces of original music can be produced from a single musical instrument, you just need to have the creativity and awareness to spot what sounds great. Those who become truly successful know that the greatest opportunities are often those that nobody else sees as opportunities at first.
That is why the returns in those kinds of opportunities are the highest. Because by the time others identify it as an opportunity you are way ahead of your competitors.