If you are not happy right now, then it is very unlikely you are going to be happy when you have achieved your goals. Neither are you likely to be happy while you are on your way to achieving those goals and the journey is the most exciting and fun part of working towards those goals.
Unhappy people tend to be non-positive, less inclined to action and often see the worst in every situation rather than the best. Unhappy people also tend to use the expression ‘I need’ rather than ‘I want’. Of course it is great to want more, but it is not OK to need more. Don’t be needy! The word ‘needy’ is non-positive.
Unhappy people also attract other unhappy people to them, and the unhappy people you attract are going to be less likely to make you feel good than happy ones. If you really want to achieve your goals and enjoy the journey, then I suggest you get happy right now. You already have many reasons to be so. For example, you may want a nicer home, but you do have a roof over your head right now and many people do not. You may want a more prestigious car, but you do have the two or four wheels you need to get around to see all those customers you are going to be selling to. You may want to be able to afford much more expensive designer clothes, but I am assuming you have some nice smart ones anyway. Are you getting the picture now?
If you are not really happy, here is an exercise that I would like you to do right now or at the earliest opportunity. It is one that I have people carry out in my Personal Growth Master Classes and it can really make you feel a lot happier than you have been for a very long time.
Take a sheet of paper and head it up REASONS FOR ME TO BE HAPPY RIGHT NOW. Take a close look at every area of your life; your work, your relationships, your home, your hobbies and everything else that comes to mind. Make a long list of everything you have got to be happy about in each of these areas. At the end of this long list you should write ‘I’m also happy because I am now an exciting journey to achieve my goals.’
When you have finished that list, read it again, insert it in a plastic folder and keep this with you at all times. Add to that list as you identify other things that make you happy. If necessary, staple an additional blank sheet on to it when you have run out of space. Any time you don’t feel happy, take it out and read it again.
There is another advantage to being happy; happy people tend to smile a lot. People like people who smile and people like to help people they like.