Insights and Reflections

Common personal growth skills tend to be quite general and broad in description, application and meaning. Anyone can use them, change them, achieve success with them. My question is, do you feel completely satisfied? As with most things, it depends, it changes, it shifts, it ebbs and flows. We often find ourselves striving for a constant state of happiness, of comfort, of peace. We put all our energy into creating a perfect state where we feel great, whilst most of the time we feel less than great.

Many people have accepted that this is what life is all about... striving for more, suffering to earn reward, putting in to get out. Now let me ask you, if every moment you are alive was the only chance you got to be happy, would you still sacrifice yourself now for a future state of happiness? Will you choose to make this moment happy? Will you recognise your role in creating happiness at this moment?

For all our strivings and goal-orientation lessons, how much are we taught about making this moment count? We often think that making a moment count means working harder towards neglecting ourselves for others to benefit. What if making a moment count means making it count towards making your life happier? Whether you think this is good or selfish, you still manage to feel happy when you allows yourself to. Note, when you allow yourself to.

It can be scary taking your happiness into your own hands. You learn that you feel the way you do because of you. It's challenging in that you're confronted with your attitudes, your habits, your values and motivations, any of which you may dislike. It can be totally depressing... aka introspective, insecure, uncertain, weakening, changing, restructuring, informative, preparational for success.

Make what you want out of it. I know I love every moment I live, I have even embraced how much I can hate things.