The Importance of Celebrating The Journey And Not The Destination

You just accomplished something extraordinary — something not a lot of people can or are willing to do. A brief smile and rush of delight overtake you, but nothing more. Instead of gathering the friends and popping the champagne, your mind is already on to the next goal, the next accomplishment, the next “big thing.”

Does this sound like you?

It’s not the end of the world if it does, but having the self-awareness to recognize this behavior is crucial to not only achieving bigger and more difficult goals, but also ultimately being happy and fulfilled in life.

So many of us are driven and motivated to be successful in whatever we do and to reach a destination that we have set out for ourselves.

It can be in our careers, relationships, financial status, level of spirituality — you name it. But there is almost always a desire to be there, rather than to be here.

This is a perfectly natural feeling.

Like almost any other Being in the Universe, we humans love to grow. In fact, it’s often the growing itself, and not the end state, that we crave the most deep down.

Ironically, it’s the progress toward our goals that brings us the most satisfaction in life. And yet, we still have our sights…