If We Aren’t Happy Right Now Then We Will Screw Our Whole Life.

I have been stewing over a talk that I recently heard about what success really is.

There seems to be a ladder in front of us, something that we are reaching for all the time. our dreams, goals, desires… That there is a final place that once we can just touch it… that we have made it.

…and then, Suddenly When you are about 40 years old in the middle of life you wake up one day and say, Uh? I have arrived? I have money? I am a boss? I have a nice car? I can travel?

And I feel the same way I always did.

I would feel cheated.

Because you see – You were always living for somewhere that you aren’t.

There is a tremendous use for us to be able to look ahead at the future. To plan and to dream. — Don’t get me wrong this is a necessity for success. We have a God given gift to design a future in our own imaginations.

But when you wake up in the future that you dreamed and you aren’t there to be present… to enjoy it… what was the purpose at all.

You will be living in some other future that hasn’t arrived. So you will never be able to enjoy the fruit of your actions and labor.

“You can’t live at all unless you live fully Now” – Alan Watts

There are many people in my life that say I am successful. There are people that even strive to be like me (its hard for me to even understand that). People think that because I am an entrepreneur that I have money, time, etc.

I do have time — but I fill it in the hustle. I do have money but I spend it on my businesses. So in reality, I feel no different than anyone else.

What defines the feeling of true success is to be able to enjoy the very moment that you are living in. To be able to find an excitement for the future but a love for the present.

I find adventure in the hustle – I need to enjoy it.

I have a family that is growing, healthy, and amazing. – I need to build memories with them today!

I have material things that are awesome. – I need to appreciate it.

If I lost it all today – I need to understand what I would still have, what I would learn. How I would rebuild.

-Chris