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There are many people in this world who feel disillusioned or depressed and it seems that nothing can change their mood, and their reason because they keep wanting more, and they say, “If I could only get this,” or “If only I could have this item or that item,” “If only I could overcome this obstacle or manage this challenge,” “If I could just get through this period,” “If I could just make it through this or that,” and they feel that this is happiness. Unfortunately, it is an epidemic in the western world that many of us have been conditioned to think that happiness is something that you are given or that can be acquired through certain means. We are taught that we can acquire it somehow, and then we can have it in our hands, like a “thing”; but happiness is a noun, not a verb.
Happiness is not something that you can do or you could acquire. You can’t, by force of will or through any external means, become happy. It doesn’t work that way. It’s never an end unto itself. ‘If I do this and if I do that, I’ll be happy’ doesn’t exist, doesn’t make sense. You cannot pursue it. It comes to you. Happiness is not an accident. Happiness is something that you design by the person that you become; but first you have to change your attitude towards happiness and perhaps, if I may suggest, you have to also change the word from happiness to contentment.
Content is a state which everything around you is and is perfect the way it is. When you’re content, you can face any type of challenge, obstacle, or hardship, but you have a different attitude towards it, a “can-do attitude.” You can experience both joy and sadness, but you won’t lose your equilibrium. When you’re content, you feel that what is inside of you and what is outside of you is the same and it is, at the same time, something you can overcome.
Something else about being content, stop focusing on yourself. The focus that everything is about you is a mistake. Self-interest only works when you are young, as a baby, but as an adult, to show true maturity, you have to take that focus and aim towards others. It’s called enlightened self-interest. Enlightened self-interest is not about you. It’s about others, their needs, their wants, there issues. As one person once said, “Help another person get what they need and you will have everything that you want.” This because it’s not about how much you have or what you have that matters. It’s about your attitude, it’s the person you’ve become, the person you become will create a legacy.
So life is about knowing who you are and what you have by being content and shifting that focus to others, and I wish that for you.
Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 600 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
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