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The One Thing You Need to Know to Be Happy - Michael Hyatt
"Embracing new things often requires us to embrace our fears, however trivial they may seem. You deal with fear not by pretending it doesn’t exist, but by refusing to give it decision-making authority."
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Tips For Finding The Right Goals
- Listen to your discontent. It tells you when something is wrong. And that could be the thing you need to correct.
- Combine it with something that inspires you to create change. Find something you truly believe in, because the process won’t always be fun and easy.
- If you want a meaningful life, you have to do new things and fear inevitably comes with that.
- List and estimate what’s necessary to achieve your goals.
- Divide your goals into smaller ones and address them one at a time. This gives you a better sense of progress and it keeps you motivated.
What Happens After You Achieve Your Goals
If the goal is meaningful, it will transform you. You’ll be more confident, mature, capable of seeing even bigger adventures, and empowered to pursue them.
A quest might end better than we imagine or disastrously. Either way, there’s always another adventure if we’re willing to pursue it.
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Procrastinating
Procrastination, or the way we let pending tasks linger on, just avoiding them, is one of the main reasons our goals don't materialize.
The longer any work is avoided the harder it becomes to eventually do it.
Like dishes piling up in the kitchen sink, they get harder and harder to do as the load increases.
Fear as the Cause of Inaction
Fear causes us to procrastinate. It can be:
- Fear of change
- Fear of leaving our comfort zone
- Fear of the unknown
- Fear of failure
- Fear of what other people would think of us
We justify these fears by imaginary different reasons, but the root cause is not related to our invented reasons, it is our inherent fear.
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The Elusive Butterfly Called Happiness
- Happiness is an enigma, an elusive butterfly. Different people experience this fleeting feeling in diverse ways.
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Don't Chase Happiness
Understandably, pain, pleasure, and loneliness can make us unhappy, and pleasures can provide us with momentary happiness.
A certain dissatisfaction, want and frustration, is, strangely enough, providing a background towards being happy. Fulfillment of all desires, and having nothing to pursue, paradoxically makes us unhappy.
It can be said that happiness is intended pleasure, and absence of pain, but if we are trying too hard to be happy, we cease to be so.
You Cannot Bottle Happiness
All of us, no matter what is our state of affairs, experience dissatisfaction, frustration and other unpleasant emotions. These emotions are as essential as one's feeling of euphoria when good things happen.
Happiness is a journey, a never-ending quest, which cannot be simply captured, bought or sold.
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