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Waiting for your life to improve before you choose to be happy would be like the princess waiting

for the frog to turn into a prince before she kissed it. All really live life once it becomes

lovable, we think, but you have to love your life until it becomes livable. Of all exercises

waiting on happiness seems to be the most futile. The very act of waiting on happiness increases the

odds that it will never come for a perpetuates the illusion that happiness is rooted in something

other than our own choosing. If we are lucky enough to find something or someone to make us happy,

our moment of satisfaction is quickly replaced by yearning for more. As a way out of this

emotional rat race, many wise teachers have advised us to be content. In a recent post, I offered my

two cents on the power of contentment. Today, I'd like to revisit that topic with the hope of adding

clarity to the original discussion. Hope you enjoy. Contentment and creativity.

Life gives us two options. Number one, you can be happy after you get the things you want. Number

two, you can be happy while you pursue the things you want. For most of my life, I was afraid of

approach number two. I was relied on using approach number one as a motivational tool, deliberately

depriving myself of happiness as a way of motivating myself to work harder wasn't my modus operandi.

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