**Don't wait for results to give yourself permission to be satisfied.** Once you've achieved your goals you'll still be the same person. Love the work. Love the process. Goals set up a pattern of differed happiness, meanwhile a focus on a system can lead to continual happiness. You aren't thinking "I'll lose 10 pounds, _then_ I'll be happy", but instead you can be happy knowing you didn't eat out **today**. > [!tldr] ⚠️ Don’t defer happiness. Or, as it's presented in [[The Happiness Equation]] : "[[Be Happy First]]". Don't put it at the end of a sequence that goes "work real hard → achieve greatness → have all the things → be happy". James Stuber suggests the existence of [[Type 2 Fun]] to describe feeling happy while doing the work that _leads to the thing you want_. Once you achieve your goals, you'll probably have new goals. So [[Be Happy First]]. You have to spend much of your days [[Living For Now]]. **** # More ## Source - [[Atomic Habits]] - [[Stillness is the Key]] - [[The Happiness Equation]] - [James Stuber's Boring Fundamentals Article](https://www.jamesstuber.com/boring-is-fun/?ref=jamesstuber.com) ## Related - [[Self Improvement ≠ Self Loathing]] - [[Perfection is Dangerous]] - [[Enough is Hard to Recognize]] - [[Intrinsic Motivation]] - [[Results are not Presence]] - [[Unsexy Solutions]] - [[Feeling "On Top" of Life]]