**Don't wait until you've accomplished your goals to allow yourself to be happy.** There are **always** going to be more goals you haven't accomplished yet. Don't defer happiness. Learn to [[Love the Process]]. There is such a thing as [[Enough is Hard to Recognize|enough]] productivity. [[Productivity isn’t Inherently Good]] anyways. It's good to have goals, but [[Sliding Goalposts Set You Up to Feel like You're Failing]]. Even if the goalposts themselves don't slide, they get superseded by new goals before they're even accomplished. None of this makes space for [[Presence]]. [[Results are not Presence]]. [[Living For Now]] is the right way to live, and the only way to really *experience* living. Even if you don't buy any of the above, and you care about "being productive", you should [[Goals Alone Don't Get Results|Develop systems, not goals]]. And by working the system, you can find day-to-day happiness. Paradoxically, the biggest and strongest I've ever been have not come from those times when I simply felt joy in having consistently worked out. After all, [[Right Process ⇒ Right Results]]. **** # More ## Source - [[The Happiness Equation]] - the original quote - Extended on by me ## Related -