SUCCESSFUL BUT UNHAPPY?

Being successful and unhappy (or unfulfilled) is more common than you might think.

In fact, I'd say it's more common than not, and is a natural consequence of the society we've built.

We're raised to think that external success will make us happy.

The career. The house. The car. The holidays. The nice watch and designer clothes.

But the truth is they're all the things our ego wants, not what we're searching for that fulfils us.

It's why vision boards tend to lead to people accumulating lots of stuff but feeling empty once they've ticked everything off their list.

What we're looking for isn't the thing itself, it's the feeling we think we'll get on the other side.

Love. Security. Finally being good enough.

But most of the time those feelings aren't linked to material possessions or achievements, which is why after decades of striving towards external 'success' we're left looking at our lives and wondering why we're still not as happy as we thought we'd be.

The trick is realising that happiness, peace, contentment and fulfilment are an internal game, so focusing on the outside world is unlikely to get us to where we want to be in the long term.

Instead, we can focus on what's going on deep in our subconscious that's blocking the feelings we're searching for.

It's absolutely possible, it just needs us to change the game we're playing.

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