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#Liberty and pursuit of happiness full

By the end of the journey, you will see the world differently and have a deeper understanding of your purpose on the planet, as well as a much stronger connection with the transcendent.įinding the Hero’s Journey you were meant to live requires you to lose your preoccupation with self by overcoming challenges, strengthening relationships, expressing gratitude and connecting to the transcendent. The lessons are in the journey, lessons learned alongside trusted traveling companions and guides.

#Liberty and pursuit of happiness full

A Hero’s Journey requires you to find your most precious gifts, then use them doing something you enjoy in the service of something larger than yourself.Ī Hero’s Journey does not promise a life full of happiness. On the contrary, it means facing “dragons and giants,” challenges that stretch you to your limits-and sometimes beyond. Throughout history, wise men have offered the Hero’s Journey as an alternative. So, what is the alternative to a fruitless search for happiness, power or money, a life driven by impulses and urges that inevitably will collapse into a failed tangle of self-centered illusions? Task Two: Losing Yourself in a Hero’s Journey

We all too often allow our addictive natures and lack of perspective to transform healthy self-interest into a corrosive self-centeredness.

We misjudge how near-term events will affect our long-term happiness.

We pursue sensual pleasures and material success for the wrong reasons.

What is it about our nature that distracts us from a noble quest to find meaning and significance, converting it instead to a meaningless, addictive and ultimately hollow grab for money, power and pleasure? Three mistakes consistently distract and mislead us: The greatest threat to leading a fulfilling life is a misguided pursuit of happiness that blinds us to the possibility of a more meaningful Hero’s Journey. Ultimately, you will likely end your life happy and quite satisfied, but not necessarily fulfilled. Deep, loving relationships have the capacity for gratitude, forgiveness and sharing in ways that are far more important than any accomplishments a good marriage has far more impact on lifelong satisfaction than good health and continuing to seek challenges and having friends of all ages is much more important than income. The key to moving from happiness to satisfaction is relationships. Despite attempts to chase happiness, most of us will spend all our lives oscillating around our pre-set level of happiness. Not only are we reasonably happy, but we seem to have a genetically determined “happiness thermostat” that is largely set at birth. So, what is the secret of happiness? It’s that most of us are already quite happy. Once your basic needs are satisfied, chasing more money, power, fame, beauty or sex will not lead to a happier life.

The old saying that “money will not buy you happiness” turns out to be supported by all the latest scientific research. Unbundling this paradox will require you to accomplish three tasks: Task One: Understanding the Difference between Happiness, Satisfaction and Fulfillment To do this, you must first learn to lose yourself. Once you have abandoned a foolish quest for the ephemeral rewards of happiness, wealth and power, you can begin to look for your true calling on this earth – a Hero’s Journey. This note is designed to help you rise above your instincts and urges to begin a search for the life you were meant to live.

A choice which will almost certainly lead you on a fool’s errand that could waste much of your life, talents and treasure. How should this “pursuit of Happiness” influence your personal journey? Should it inspire you to work your way to the top, making whatever sacrifices are necessary to achieve your fortune? Or does it suggest that you should slow down and savor every pleasure, drinking deeply from the well of life? These are the questions of our age for any talented and thoughtful person.Įxcept that they present a false choice. Many believe it was instrumental in creating the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet others blame it for the materialistic excesses of a people who have lost their way. The unalienable right to the “pursuit of Happiness” is burned into the DNA of every American.

Rise above your instincts to begin the life you were meant to live.