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Like a lot of Americans, I was raised in a school system that tried to motivate me with some fear. "You better get good grades, unless you want to dig ditches for a living." Or, "you have to have a goal or a career, or you'll just float through life," as if our worth as humans and are happiness was only determined by achieving some constructed measure of success. It was this kind of thinking that got me away from my instincts, and made me focus on success as being more important than happiness, which basically shut off my imagination and made me think of life as a struggle, rather than something to be embraced. Your imagination is nature's tool for envisioning and creating a better future, and following one's instincts free of outside suggestions or fear of what might happen in the future is the only way to allow yourself to guide you to self actualization. Although my life could be looked at as a series of struggles, I have gained some wisdom about this in applying things to my daily living now and am achieving incremental success as a result. You don't need achievement to be happy, and what is achievement anyways? Sure, it feels good to achieve something, but than life goes on. Once you realize this, the fear of failure goes away, and the courage to try more things that most people are too fearful to attempt comes along with it. Rather than focus on what you need to be happy, you have to be happy focusing on enjoying the journey. There are no rules, only laws. In the end, most of our life will be composed of working towards goals, not achieving them. And whether you're the best, average, or less, it really is only a euphemism. What truly matters is the path, which is all that life is - just a path. While focusing too much on the future, we are letting life pass us by, and success, material or otherwise, can only be obtained by planting seeds in the here and now. After all, no one can do anything in the future or past; the moment is all there is and all there will ever be.
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Peter V. Ruble
CEO American Rubles
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