One of the most common struggles we experience is striving for success in what we do while being happy as well. Achieving success calls for a lot of responsibilities including hard work, patience, planning etc. This often comes with a lot of stress to manage thus making it hard to be happy amidst all the experience of striving for success.
But again, you have to be happy at what your doing to realize success. If what your doing does not make you happy or does not fulfill you as a person, then your not successful despite the worldly possessions you could have accumulated. You won't be happy when you achieve what you want than you are now. Saying you'll be happy when you acquire this specific amount of money or when you acquire this property or car usually doesn't come to fruition, you will still not be happy when you reach your targets if you are not happy now.
You have to be happy along the way, appreciating the small advantages you get day by day as you aim for greater things. You will only be happy as you make up your mind to be.
So how do we realize happiness while in pursuit of success;
First and foremost, we've got to understand what happiness is. Happiness in my terms is simply enjoying who you are and what you are doing.
It's important to understand who you are and find a way to be comfortable with who you are. Not who the society wants you to be. This will guide the decisions you make in your daily life as they will rotate around what you need to do to be good at who you're being.
After understanding who you are, you need to decide what you want, what I refer to as a goal, and the reason why you want it. This goal should be in line with your;
- Personal values
- Priorities in life
- The potential to achieve them
To achieve this goal you have to be doing something you are happy doing. If you are not happy with what your doing, then find a way to be happy with what your doing, or else you have to let it pass and find something else your happy with.
Enjoying what your doing will push you to tap into your unique strengths and talents and apply them because you want to do it well. And as a result, you'll start seeing small advantages at a time which you might not notice at the time but these lead to the big achievement your pursuing.
The big achievement comes one small advantage at a time. Just enjoy the journey and who your becoming as long as you have the final product in mind.