" Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence" Aristotle

The pursuit of happiness is yours for the taking. It is achievable, by being happy where you are right now, and not waiting for the right time, the right place, the right person. It is to be pursued now. A lot of people cannot be happy- because they do not know how. There are road blocks like low self esteem, and ghosts from the past that haunt them. Self limiting thoughts, beliefs, and erroneous messages tell them that they do not deserve to be happy. Guilt and messages from past prevail.

The reverse is true. A person who only seeks happiness and short term gratification without consideration for others, will only find that it eludes them.

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Goal setting is important, but the fundamentals need to be settled first. Unexamined goals are dangerous, as was mentioned in the previous post.

"Why was I not told, that in my brain I hold, in one tiny ivory cell, both God's heaven and God's hell?"  Oscar Wilde

Voices are crying, pulling in many directions. Almost magnetically, we are drawn toward those goals which seem attractive, and promise us things we think we want. That new car, that girlfriend, that promotion, that image of yourself that makes others think you are smart, cool, slick and popular, wanted.

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Goal setting is powerful. It can get you to where you want to go. Most success formulas suggest that you formulate your goals in order to get where you want to be. They ask you to dream of that dream car, house, boat, lifestyle. They tell you to ask yourself what you want then set your goals in order to get what you want. But it seems there is something missing.  All the goal setting software and plans will not work if the goals are unexamined, in the larger context.

"Everything you do, is triggered by the emotion of either desire or fear." Brian Tracy.

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