The Kingdom of Calm Blog

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Quote reblogged from Not A Starving Artist

There is no tomorrow. There is no “I’ll be successful when I reach here, or there or I’ll be happy as soon as X happens”.

There is only right now. Its a crazy thing but so many of us live in the future. I know this because I have like-minded, goal orientated friends like myself. Friends who say: “As soon as my book is published…” or “I need to be making at least 6 figures…” Those are all valid goals but they have nothing to do with success or happiness.

What I realized is that putting your visions of success and happiness into the future tense really is a negation of your success and happiness right here and now. We are unhappy with how things are so we fantasize about the future and how happy we’ll be when we have our new car, house, salary, job, relationship.

But its all bullshit. You’re lying to yourself. If you can’t feel your success right here in the present moment, then you never will. It will never ever come.

martin prihoda

to really find happiness and joy in any circumstance, to set goals but be less focused on the endless pursuit of self-defined success and more focused on the journey and the moments it brings. (via carmen-chan)
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  wise words. Simple yet always forgotten.
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