REALITY CHECK
Discover your divine purpose, heal your soul, and awaken to your highest calling.
Join Zachary Phillips on a journey towards living a more examined life with talks delving into the nature of reality, the search for meaning and the pursuit of happiness.
#179: Don't Delay Your Happiness
We have a tendency to believe that happiness will come ‘when we make it’ or ‘when we accomplish the goal’. In this way we delay our happiness to some future state.
The problem is that we live the majority of life in the pursuit, and when we finally do arrive, our happiness is short lived.
Thus we risk living a life where we are delaying our happiness, and never actually enjoying it, or the present moment.
But the good news is that once we recognise this process, we can start mindfully appreciating the present moment and enjoying the journey as well as the destination.
70: Are You A Wage Slave?
85% of full time workers are 'not engaged’ by their work. In effect they either hate what they are doing, or merely tolerate doing it.
This terrifies me. For years I was in this situation, until my mental health and a study opportunity forced me out of full time employment.