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Why Living Authentically Matters
3 Steps to living it
Many people think that the key to happiness is in their goals. If I achieve xyz I will find happiness. The truth is anything that we set goals for whether it be career, marriage, traveling, these things are meant to enrich your life, not solely define your identity.
It’s a bit of a dilemma you’ve completed a degree in the career field you always wanted and while the work brings happiness to your life it doesn’t uplift you day in and day out as you had imagined it would. Or you have fallen in love, yet it feels as if something is missing. When we achieve goals, we expect to reach a plateau of happiness, but what we find is that there is something else we want now as if there is always something missing.
The reason is that while your goals are essential, they enrich your life, give you direction, purpose, and motivation, they are only things you set out along the way to learn and therefore grow and evolve from. They alone do not bring happiness. The key to happiness is found in authenticity.
Why living authentically matters
Let’s go back to those goals, how many of them are truly yours? For example, you may take up a certain profession because you thought it would make your parents proud, or make a lot of money. Yet, in truth these…
