A HAPPY LIFE

 HOW TO MAKE A HAPPY LIFE sent.” ~Jim Rohn

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve spent the better part of my life chasing after happiness. It always seemed like happiness stayed just a tad bit out of my grasp—somewhere in the future that I could always see, but not quite touch.

For instance, when I was a kid, I believed I’d be happy if I got an admission into a good college. In college, I believed that I’d be happy if I got a good job. When I got a job, I believed that I’d be happy if I got a promotion and a raise. And on and on it went.

For the first time I saw the futility of our chase. I still believe that goals are important aHappiness, it turns out, is not something we go after. It’s sond we should strive to achieve them. But now, I see them more as mile markers in life’s journey, not having much to do with happiness.

mething already within us. We just need to clear up some clutter to find it.

The two years that followed have been an amazing journey of slowly letting go of some of that clutter in the quest to find the true happiness within. It’s still a work-in-progress, but here are the things I’ve been striving to let go.