Have you ever gone after something big, and got it only to realize that that feeling of happiness didn’t last as long as you thought it would? Why is happiness so often fleeting?
In a recent op-ed, San Francisco therapist and professional life coach Nico Iglesias offers an explanation and simple fix for that lack of sustainable happiness in our lives.
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He posts that happiness is an inner state, a feeling that we are walking the right path in our life’s path. He believes in order to achieve that state, we need to change our perspective in these two areas of our lives:
Pleasure vs. Satisfaction
You can buy pleasure, like a new car, or other types of comfort. But you can’t buy satisfaction; the only way you will obtain satisfaction is by achieving things in your life.
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Iglesias emphasizes that the important thing is to experience happiness through satisfaction and not through pleasure. Pleasure begins and it finishes quickly, but satisfaction does not.
Time, Money and Health
Iglesias writes: “You could be the richest man on earth and yet not have the time or health to be happy.”
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While you could successfully argue that money is important in taking care of yourself and your family, you want to make sure those three components are balanced. Are you neglecting any of those three things and what are you getting in return? What’s the cost of this trade off?
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Curated article from:
SF Examiner
