A Key To Happiness

In this blog, I discuss one essential key to obtaining true happiness in your life.

How many times have you been fuelled by your passions and goals, only to have them shutdown by the people around you?

I can tell you personally, it has happened many times. It has happened many times and from the people I cared about the most! My friends and my family. As I experienced this many times, I asked myself “Why does this keep happening?”

I took some time to really focus on the reasoning behind it and upon doing some deep analysis, I discovered something.

What I discovered is that when someone is afraid of doing something, they will more often than not project that fear onto you. For example, if you want to become self-employed, someone may be fearful of the risks that come with being self employed so they will tell you that it is a bad idea. Through this action, it can be a huge reason behind why you fear the things that you do and why you simply don’t do the things you want to do.

Your own fears and other people’s fears is what will stand between you and your happiness. If you are constantly living in fear, you will never realise the potential your life possesses, and you will never truly be happy. You will always have a hole somewhere inside you where you know something is missing.

Why am I saying this? I am saying this because I felt this. Through feeling this numerous times, it started to really impact me mentally which is why I took the path of really trying to understand what was happening. Through people shutting my hopes down, projecting their fears onto me and me ultimately being left feeling unsatisfied, I was able to discover this. I was able to discover this philosophy of mine which is in the title of this blog:

• “Bravery is needed when chasing what you want”

  

Once I decided to shut out all the naysayers, I still had a mountain to climb. On the path to climbing that mountain, there have been many times where the doubt and fear has crept into my mind due to past experiences. It is in these times where it is essential for me to remember my own philosophy. Bravery can only be obtained through the fears in your life. For if you have no fear, there is no bravery. This is another philosophy of mine which I have only come to realise through experience:

• “If you have no fear, you can not have bravery”

When I am presented with a challenge and I am fearful of that challenge, I always remember what it felt like to back down and not even try. It is a feeling that I will never forget because it never brought me any happiness. It is only when I took on my fear by being brave enough to do so, I obtained happiness. Regardless of the outcome, if I know that I did not back down or cower, I was able to be satisfied with myself and my confidence grew. My confidence grew because I knew I was capable of overcoming my fear which I was not once able to do.

So the important lesson to take away from these philosophies of mine and this blog (if you choose to of course) is that you need to be brave in order to obtain happiness. You need to understand that people will more often than not project their fears onto you which you should not allow to enter into your mind. This is your life and you know what feels good and what does not.

I am still on the path to climbing the mountain, I have not reached it yet. But each time I doubt myself or a little bit of fear crawls back into my mind, I remember these philosophies.

I hope these words of mine I have shared truly add value to your life. You all have a philosophy or philosophies in which you live by which I would love for you all to share!

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