Are You Chasing Happiness?

It is safe to say that most of us spend our life chasing happiness. We want to feel good, to look good and be successful. The problem is, most of us are not happy and we don’t feel good, we are not happy with our appearance and we never feel like we have enough, do enough or achieve enough.

We are over complicating things, the answer is simple and it is within each of us, it cannot be found externally. You are not happy because you are not aligned with your core values and desires and you are not fully expressing your true self.

While it may be simple, it is also difficult and challenges our core beliefs and perceptions about life and the world around us. Society does not typically teach us to follow our heart, to speak our truth, to dream big. Instead we are taught to fit into a mold, to people please, to work harder and to play it safe.

If you are not happy the first step is awareness & curiosity. First things first, you want to identify what you are unhappy with. Is it yourself, your career, your home, your social life, your relationship, your finances, your goals, your life in general? Next, you’ll need to dig a little deeper, why are you unhappy with each of the areas you identified above? Get specific. Getting familiar with what you don’t want, what is making you unhappy, will help to shed light on what you DO want.

The real issue is that you don’t truly know yourself. You don’t accept your true self so you have been hiding parts of yourself, fitting in, doing what you think you should do, being the person that everyone else wants or needs rather than just being you. If you don’t know, accept and love yourself how can you live a life that is aligned with your values, desires and needs? In order to be truly happy we have to have healthy self-esteem, know our worth and do what feels right and good for us. This may sound selfish, but it is the complete opposite, when we honour and show up for ourselves we have more to give others.

If you feel you would benefit from loving yourself deeper, knowing your worth and honouring yourself check out my new course Transformative Self-Love. and don’t forget to subscribe to my mailing list and stay tuned for an exciting announcement coming soon!