Your Life, Your Rules – Why Happiness Shouldn’t Feel Like Hard Work

You're reading Your Life, Your Rules – Why Happiness Shouldn’t Feel Like Hard Work, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Fool Me Once, Shame On You The biggest lie I was told growing up was that I had to work extremely hard to be happy and get what I want. That I needed to make sacrifices such as sleeping less to do more and minimizing my leisure time, sometimes doing things I didn't want to do and ultimately following the rules I was given regardless of how I felt about them... because that's just life, right? The dream had been disguised as a job that paid well with great benefits, that would ensure stability and security (even if I didn't like it). Do I Have a Say In This? But whatever happened to how I feel? Did anyone ask me what I thought about this whole ordeal? Absolutely not. We are molded to think this is the only way but it's not. Reality Bites What really made me challenge this mindset was seeing myself and those around me driving ourselves to the ground, working 50, 60, 70 hours a week. Dealing with ego's in toxic environments that contradict our own being. Forcing it all for a paycheck that will "set us free" in the end. The illusion here is that there is an end. A happy ending at that. The truth is, if you are not happy now what makes you think that happiness is around the corner? I'm not saying this is everyone's case but I've lived i...
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