Happiness and success can be thought of in terms of units. I believe that both happiness and success work a bit like compound interest, if you don’t cash in on the interest of the happiness and success units invested, but instead take what you’ve learned and double down on what brought the happiness and/or success, then the net result increases more and more.
However, it can be very difficult to find out what makes each of us happy and how we individually find success. This is because we are all individuals. Now we know this intellectually, but we often still go chasing after things that appear to bring these desired results for other people. These things are often external, temporary and ineffective in bringing long term happiness and success. I often put happiness and success together, and I do this on purpose, because I believe that they are so interconnected that it is very difficult to have one without the other.
When we gain material success we rarely find long term happiness, because of the nature of material things. If we can figure out what actually makes us happy, things that bring us joy and contentment, it then becomes clear what type of success will then increase and sustain this happiness for us. This is because our goals for success will be on our terms, they will be what success means to us.
Tony Robbins calls this the Science of Achievement and Art of Fulfilment. If you get both of these right, then you will be happy and you will find success by following your own path, guided by the wisdom and examples of others, rather than following the paths of others guided by someone else’s goals that will not necessarily bring the happiness and success you are looking for. Socrates said “Know thyself,” Tony Robbins added to this “Be thyself.” This is the route to both happiness and success.
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