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💚 Write Happier 💚

If you frequently get sad about your writing or your level of success, you might not be focusing on the right thing.

Ambition seldom entertains happiness; rather it invites deeper ambitions.

When you set an approachable goal, like 1,000 followers, you might reach it for a second—you might even feel elation for a day or two—but that joy is like smoke. Now, you have a new goal of 2,500 followers. That becomes 5,000. 10,000. 100,000. Surely, that next milestone will make you happier, won't it?

Won't it?

Sure, there are steps along the way that might make you measurably, undeniably happier. If you can make a living off your writing, for instance, you can enjoy your passion without working a job, and that's a big deal. But it isn't the be-all end-all of writing happily.

Many people have reached astronomical heights of success and wealth, and yet as their rose fades, many are very unhappy, and why? It's because they never found happiness; instead they met goals. And when their beauty and success begin to decline, they quit meeting their goals and all that elation burns away. Goals run out. Happiness does not.

I am a truly happy person. Although everyone is different, and what I say is not by any means the diamond-hard truth, I do say the following with confidence: Setting goals is dangerous. It's for the very reasons that I stated.

So, what do I do instead?

Instead I just do it, and I stop thinking about it.

When I look very deeply into myself, I discover that it isn't fame, as such, that I want. I simply want people to read what I write.

And really, there's only so much I can do to get readers. I've long since decided that I won't write solely for the masses, because that just isn't fun for me. I write what I write as well as I can write it, and I spend time with you every single day. It's a good as I'll do, so what's there to be sad about?

Really, whether one person reads my writing or a million, I am doing the same thing. Either way, I work at it as hard as I will. So I write onward, and I don't think too much about where I end up.

Note that I didn't say that I work as hard as I can, though. Because that's another pitfall:

Try not to work as hard as you can. Work as much as you need to while enjoying the other aspects of life.

I want to live somewhere it snows and rains, I want to write, and I want to help people. For me, it's that simple. If I ever make a lot of money, I'll give most of it away to a worthy cause and go on with my life. In my deeply held view, everyone should live equally, peacefully, and happily, and having an excess of anything doesn't create that world. My excess will always be someone else's need.

At the end of each day, it's my daily practice of writing and interacting with you that made me happy, and so every day I cherish my time doing that, and I'm thankful each morning that I can do it again. Instead of worrying about the future, I enjoy what I have for as long as I have it.

What about you? What about writing really makes you happy?