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“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” ~Unknown
We are all on a mission to be the best we can be, to be happy, to have the perfect house, family, partner, and job. To complete our to-do list, to complete out bucket list, to make our parents proud, to get promoted, earn more money, and be successful.
Life can often feel like a never-ending treadmill, going quickly in the wrong direction. As we run faster to try to progress down this path, the goal becomes more elusive.
Are we setting ourselves up to fail in this quest for the perfect life? And will it even result in our one main aim: happiness?
I’m beginning to think that our quest for success and happiness is, in fact, the main reason we are unhappy.
We place such high expectations on ourselves—to progress at work and be successful, to meet the same pressure to be perfect at home—and we feel we have to conform to the media ideals we see every day in terms of our health, our looks, our weight.
As if that’s not hard enough, we then look at everyone around us feeling like they’ve got it mastered an…
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“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” ~Unknown
We are all on a mission to be the best we can be, to be happy, to have the perfect house, family, partner, and job. To complete our to-do list, to complete out bucket list, to make our parents proud, to get promoted, earn more money, and be successful.
Life can often feel like a never-ending treadmill, going quickly in the wrong direction. As we run faster to try to progress down this path, the goal becomes more elusive.
Are we setting ourselves up to fail in this quest for the perfect life? And will it even result in our one main aim: happiness?
I’m beginning to think that our quest for success and happiness is, in fact, the main reason we are unhappy.
We place such high expectations on ourselves—to progress at work and be successful, to meet the same pressure to be perfect at home—and we feel we have to conform to the media ideals we see every day in terms of our health, our looks, our weight.
As if that’s not hard enough, we then look at everyone around us feeling like they’ve got it mastered an…
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