There’s no magic button or map to follow that will lead you to a joyful life – you have to design it for yourself. You can’t fit your joy into a cookie cutter mold. The fact of the matter is you have to create your own happiness. And while goals and dreams are important for every individual to have and aspire to, it’s not beneficial to tie our happiness to the blueprint we have created for our lives. These types of expectations are dangerous – they prevent you from being who you really are and finding a way to create your own happiness. The expectations we set for ourselves, and our loved ones, have become unrealistic. When we follow the push instead of the pull, we cannot create happiness that is truly meaningful to us. Why do we praise celebrities without fully appreciating people who do invaluable work, such as school teachers? Why do we look at stay-at-home parents as being just caregivers, when many are working tirelessly to nurture and raise the future of the world? Doesn’t that deserve to be called “special”? In our culture, we are often pushed to do what we believe society wants us to do rather than following the pull of passion. But our definition of what qualifies as special or unique is distorted. We live in a culture that teaches people that you are not good enough unless you do something really special and unique. ![]() A limiting belief such as this makes it extremely difficult to achieve a breakthrough in any area of your life. ![]() ![]() You feel that only once you accomplish an insurmountable goal that you’ll be happy. While you may not have followed the traditional storybook blueprint for your life that includes going to a top school, getting a good job, finding the right person, having children and living happily ever after, odds are you still cling to one archetype – that in order to truly believe you are enough, you have to achieve an enormous amount. Have you always imagined that you would be married with children by a certain age? Or that you would be further along in your career than you are today? What other beliefs do you have about what your life should look like? How have these limiting beliefs held you back from reaching your true potential? What would happen if you let go of the idea of happiness you had in your mind, and instead, started being grateful for what you already have? How would this lead you to the path to create your own happiness?
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