Price of Pursuing Empty Dream and Happiness (Part 2 of 4).

Give Consideration to Our Dreams’ Impact and Effect before Pursuing.

Updated on May 19, 2010.

In previous Gen Y blog article, Price of Pursuing Empty Dream and Happiness (Part 1 of 4), we study the fundamental needs of our life’s objectives. We need to know whether a particular dream is truly what we look forward to or not. Do we really follow our heart? How do we align our goal setting with our truth inner self?

Now, I will discuss the intangible consideration before we embark on any goal setting. When is the last time we are disappointed upon some achievement? How often do we find ourselves achieve a particular goal only realize we do not really want it? Worse, we regret that we lost something really important stuff along the way.

“Inner happiness is to know what our purpose in life is.” – James Ang, The omniGens Blog – Make Life Simple .

1. Do we give in-depth consideration to a particular objective we set?

Sometimes we can find ourselves working hard for the wrong reasons. Upon close-up review, we may find that this is not our real life’s objective at all. We may wonder why in the first place we are doing this! [1] [2]

One suggestion is to write down the underlying cause for achieving this objective. Then we can decide whether it is worthwhile to pursue this objective or dream.

2. Would we be really happy or lost if we cannot make it?

When we are overly obsessed with a goal, we will be upset once we cannot achieve them. This will create a downward spiral effect on our mental and physical health.

Life is full of ups and downs. Basically, life is unpredictable. The only certainties are lives unpredictably.

3. What type of happiness do we get?

Is it material, superficial or inner happiness? For the first two it means we are attached to possession of a physical stuff like material wealth or extra paper qualification we not really interest in the first place.

This will make us obsess with power, prestige, material wealth and possession. In the long run, we may suffer job burnout due to overwork [3] [4]. We need to find a balance between work and play.

Material happiness cannot completely replace inner happiness. Let’s go for life’s basic.

Inner happiness is to know what our purpose in life is. Get to know who we are. Get to know when to let go. We have to know where we are and where we came from. Only then we can truly know our objective, interest and purpose in life. [5] [6]

Simple joy will lead to simple happiness.

First published: January 4, 2010.

Updated on May 19, 2010.

About James  Ang.

James Ang is a Gen Y Blogger (or Gen Y Pro blogger – stands for Professional Blogger) who blogs mainly on innovation, peer learning, personal development and well beings.

About The omniGenerations Blog’s Concept.

The omniGenerations Blog (or The omniGens Blog in short) is a peer learning community blog or a peer learning micro wiki blog that focus on the holistic development of our lives. The omniGens Blog leverages on the collective wisdom of our proactive community in helping us to achieve simple work – life balance and happiness. Make Life Simple.

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