Chasing Your Dreams Won’t Make You Happy

We have this goal in mind and we think that once we achieve it will solve all our problems.

But as soon as you achieve that goal, you are looking for what is next.

How do you know your next goal will be more fulfilling than the last one?

We keep chasing and chasing goals, because there is always more to chase.

More followers, more money, a bigger launch.

The perfect lover. A bigger home. A fitter body.

What happens if you achieve every goal and every dream you ever had?

Then what?

Isn't that one of the reasons a lot of really rich people still aren't happy?

We keep living "If this happens, then I will be happy"-lives.

We keep working towards a better, ideal future.

I sometimes catch myself these days thinking of escaping the winter and covid. Thinking that once I'm in a warmer climate, where I can surf and go to restaurants and the gym again, then my life will be ok again and that I will feel better.

Chasing dreams and goals and living a If-Then life, means we aren’t here now - now, where life is actually happening. Now and now and now.

We plan and manifest and set goals and do vision boards, because we are in love with the idea of a better future and a better version of ourselves.

But now is really all we have at any moment in time. This is what counts.

Be here now. Make your today great.

(This is atomic essay #10, which is part of 30 Days of Writing #Ship30for30)