Success Does Not Bring You Happiness.

What do you really want from your life? Have you ever thought about this question?
Have you ever noticed the trends in society? The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer all the time. Is it that they are destined to have such lives? Have all the rich hit the lottery sometime, or have had affluent families? Have the rich all been so lucky and got rich through some channel that has not been available to the poor? Is somebody or something holding us back from doing what we know we should do to get out of the situation we are in, and we hate? You all know the answers to these questions. Different people might have different points of views, but we all know for sure that “No Pain No Gain” is correct. We can’t sit around, watch TV, and hope and wish that things will get better sometime into the future when that person stops doing that, or when that person starts realizing that, etc.
Many People really don’t take the time to know themselves at all. They have a vague idea of who they are, what they want, and what their values are. Most people though, know very well what they don’t want, and that’s why we are experts at complaining.
You see, the world is full of opportunities. There is enough even if the population of the earth quadruples. We usually don’t see what we have, and concentrate on what we don’t have. That keeps us from taking advantage of what we already have, and so having this mindset, we stay where we are all the time.
Success really begins when you realize that you are totally responsible for your life and what happens to you, that you cannot blame anything on anybody else, and that, in order to be a success, you need to know yourself very well, maybe much better than your mother knows you. You don’t want to end up accomplishing something that is of no value to you, that you thought it was when you started in the first place. Having this in mind, you can plan it, schedule it, and start working on it until you accomplish it.
Maybe fully 95% of the money in the whole world is being earned only by 3% of the population of the world. They are not very different from you and me. They don’t have extra hours either. What makes them distinguished from the crowd is their mindset.
Most people would tell you that they want to earn $50,000 a month. They might tell you this as their goal. But then, they do not really know what they would do with $50,000 a month, simply because they do not know who they really are. Even if you find them a way to earn the money they want, they will most probably quit their goal, somewhere in the middle of the way simply because it is too hard to keep doing what they need to do to realize their dreams.
It is not that people are not powerful enough to realize their goals. They sure are, to do anything with their lives. The point is that, we often do not have the “why” behind what we do. You see, the “why” is what drives you forward no matter how hard it is to push forward. When you know the “why”, you either find a way or make one. There is simply no room for failure.
The first step here would be to start from our values, so we know ourselves better, and so we can make informed decisions along the way. I will write more about values later. Please stay tuned. Thank you for your attention.