It
is a similar story in all cases , someone starts a job, project or
business relationship with the hope of finding something like this
represents fulfillment and happiness . In
some cases , that something is money, in others, to be loved by someone
else, for others it might be the glory and the personal and
professional prestige.
Whatever the case, the truth is that the way that leads the person is seen as an opportunity to try to climb a mountain , but where there is a high with the promise of fulfillment and happiness .
I interacted with people of "base camp " starting to prepare your cards and your computer to start up full of hopes and expectations and , almost always , undermine the effort and personal investment are required to make to the top.
I interacted with two people who are mid- rise , some still are up -beat, others have lost enthusiasm long ago, but continue to rise because they are still hypnotized by the illusion of what the prices are at the end of the road or because they feel it is too late to return . I also talked to the top and decided to stay at the top or down to base camp , with no intention of starting another climb. Finally , I shared with those who have several mountain peaks .
The lessons of ascension? The first and perhaps the deepest of all, without exception , those who maintained the top of the mountain and the expectation that the purpose of the trip and during the ascent was in themselves , their families and happiness never find correctly when peak .
They have money , but destroyed his marriage and family , the glory , but is alone, or perhaps a little of both , but left bitter that it was not worth the sacrifice flavor. Cavafy Kostantino sang brilliantly in his beautiful poem happiness and fulfillment " Ithaca" should not be placed on top of a mountain, or at the end of a road.
Happiness and fulfillment are to be created at each stage of the journey, this journey that teaches us and makes us stronger , and we who crowned crucified us . Only then , at each step of the mountain has a sense of depth and compensation.
The second lesson and heresy today is that if , at a time when we have the experience of not being satisfied , it is precisely because we have not enough left. We believe that the return of a mountain that is not ours , it is rewarding and takes life away from us , it is a sign of losing .
We believe that because we started a specific route with a goal, we see ourselves as losers if we find that it was not our mountain and decided to return . We believe that the return is a failure. We believe that quitting is losing .And now I say to you are not happy now because we do not have enough left . If you are not happy now , there is something for quitting.
I have friends who reached the top of their professions, they choose the same from the beginning of their careers, that are related to their use for the level of income received and the lifestyle they feel they must keep, but have lost his eyes sparkle and depth of their smiles. Disappear and not even know what passions are too attached to their own success and that's what makes them so unhappy and dissatisfied . No longer enough.
The fact that we can do something and we're good at it does not mean that our happiness is to do. Our happiness is doing what you are so intensely passionate we could do without any financial compensation and still wake up every day happy to do it again .
My invitation ? Get out ! Log out what makes you happy, out of the road where you are because you think it's too late to turn back , leaving the relationship does not make you happy, that does not respect who you are and having a fear of appearing a failure, leaving work that is not aligned with their values.
If not satisfied , if you feel that you sold a few gold coins, if you pay for what you do , but you lost your happiness a long time, I want to tell you precisely because there is not enough.
Life is there to be discovered and the path to discovery is full of opportunities for growth and happiness, but the key to finding life in which we do what we love until the fire is to stop smoking , quit many times as necessary, until we find our own way. If you are not happy , no matter how successful you are , because it leaves enough!
Whatever the case, the truth is that the way that leads the person is seen as an opportunity to try to climb a mountain , but where there is a high with the promise of fulfillment and happiness .
I interacted with people of "base camp " starting to prepare your cards and your computer to start up full of hopes and expectations and , almost always , undermine the effort and personal investment are required to make to the top.
I interacted with two people who are mid- rise , some still are up -beat, others have lost enthusiasm long ago, but continue to rise because they are still hypnotized by the illusion of what the prices are at the end of the road or because they feel it is too late to return . I also talked to the top and decided to stay at the top or down to base camp , with no intention of starting another climb. Finally , I shared with those who have several mountain peaks .
The lessons of ascension? The first and perhaps the deepest of all, without exception , those who maintained the top of the mountain and the expectation that the purpose of the trip and during the ascent was in themselves , their families and happiness never find correctly when peak .
They have money , but destroyed his marriage and family , the glory , but is alone, or perhaps a little of both , but left bitter that it was not worth the sacrifice flavor. Cavafy Kostantino sang brilliantly in his beautiful poem happiness and fulfillment " Ithaca" should not be placed on top of a mountain, or at the end of a road.
Happiness and fulfillment are to be created at each stage of the journey, this journey that teaches us and makes us stronger , and we who crowned crucified us . Only then , at each step of the mountain has a sense of depth and compensation.
The second lesson and heresy today is that if , at a time when we have the experience of not being satisfied , it is precisely because we have not enough left. We believe that the return of a mountain that is not ours , it is rewarding and takes life away from us , it is a sign of losing .
We believe that because we started a specific route with a goal, we see ourselves as losers if we find that it was not our mountain and decided to return . We believe that the return is a failure. We believe that quitting is losing .And now I say to you are not happy now because we do not have enough left . If you are not happy now , there is something for quitting.
I have friends who reached the top of their professions, they choose the same from the beginning of their careers, that are related to their use for the level of income received and the lifestyle they feel they must keep, but have lost his eyes sparkle and depth of their smiles. Disappear and not even know what passions are too attached to their own success and that's what makes them so unhappy and dissatisfied . No longer enough.
The fact that we can do something and we're good at it does not mean that our happiness is to do. Our happiness is doing what you are so intensely passionate we could do without any financial compensation and still wake up every day happy to do it again .
My invitation ? Get out ! Log out what makes you happy, out of the road where you are because you think it's too late to turn back , leaving the relationship does not make you happy, that does not respect who you are and having a fear of appearing a failure, leaving work that is not aligned with their values.
If not satisfied , if you feel that you sold a few gold coins, if you pay for what you do , but you lost your happiness a long time, I want to tell you precisely because there is not enough.
Life is there to be discovered and the path to discovery is full of opportunities for growth and happiness, but the key to finding life in which we do what we love until the fire is to stop smoking , quit many times as necessary, until we find our own way. If you are not happy , no matter how successful you are , because it leaves enough!
