#099 Giving Thanks Despite Personal Struggles And The Dirty Secret About Chasing Happiness
For this Thanksgiving episode, I take some time to open up and give thanks during what has been a very challenging year.
Cancer. Moving. New jobs. Young kids. All of it.
It's really made our lives difficult and put us in a constant state of change. It definitely hasn't made us "happy" all of the time. And that's totally fine because we don't focus on being happy.
Our focus is on significance. Things that have deep meaning. Our culture preaches that doing what makes you happy is the ultimate desired state. Society couldn't be more wrong.
It's impossible to be in a constant state of happiness. It's also very shallow. If you had a loved one dying in a hospital, would you not go see them because that would make you sad and not happy? Of course not. You would drive there as fast as possible. Why?
Because those last moments would be significant.
We get it mixed up. We think that if we are happy, we will be grateful.
But the dirty little secret is that its the opposite.
When we are grateful, we will be happy.
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