Things Don't Define You

This Is Why The Dog Is Happier

The Most Important Things Aren't Things

The hustle and bustle of each day, inundated with deadlines and social demands, it's all enough to make us lose direction.

Here we are, becoming and doing what we really don’t want to become or do, just so someday we will can do the things we really want to do.

Somehow we have convinced ourselves that there is happiness in approval from others, owning things, or from the promise of eternal salvation. 

We've discussed this before, it's just fine to own things, just don't let them own you.

That is where so much misery derails your plan for happiness.

Happiness isn't a future event, it exists now. 

If you’re unhappy it isn't because you don't possess some material item, or because you didn't get the approval you desire. It's because you are looking for happiness where it doesn't exist.

Being successful isn't what you can afford to buy, it's knowing what you don't need.

As someone once said, "to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem."

The best way to avoid the problem is to stop caring about what others think, about your wealth or lack of, your hairstyle, your clothes, about praise and popularity.

Just like the "Likes" on Facebook are meaningless, so is caring too much about material and worldly things.

By not caring, we release ourselves and have the freedom to enjoy life, to experience happiness.

We may be in the world but we don't have to be of the world, a world that places more value on temporary things than permanent self worth.

There's nothing wrong with money, if you can pay your bills, put food on your table and have a little fun along the way, it's all good.

If you want something, fine, go get it, but don't let it define you.

It's rewarding to make plans, achieve our goals, to accomplish things, you just don't need to base your  happiness on these things, because it's all temporary.

Just remember, success isn't being able to have everything, it's knowing what you you can live without.

If you are focused on all your tomorrows and not the present you’re self worth is based on future outcomes, not who you are right now.

You don't need to keep looking for some future happiness, your happiness is already here.