A short monologue by T. Harv Eker arguing that happiness must be practiced in the present to ensure future happiness. Eker contends that people habitually postpone happiness to an imagined future, and that habitual unhappiness becomes permanent unless one deliberately cultivates present-moment happiness.
How many people are constantly waiting for some time in the future to be happy? Or at least happier? Our entire culture revolves around being happy in the future. When you stop and think about it, it's kind of insane, isn't it? I mean, how do you be happy in the future? You couldn't even nod your head in the future, and you want to base your entire life of happiness on a future that doesn't exist anywhere but inside your head? Hmm. Okay, Harv, I get it. If I want to be happy, it can only be now. But I also want to be. Make. Be happy in the future. I make sure I'm happy in the future. I mean, I spend a lot of time and energy on that. I'm working and planning and setting up my life so that I can be happier in the future than I am now. You and 7 billion other people just like you, you want to ensure you're happy and hopefully even more happy in the future. Yes, I get it. So, would you like to know the secret to making absolutely sure you are totally happy in the future? Here it is. If you want to be happy in the future, you have to be happy now. Why? Because we are creatures of what? Habit. Thank you. Have you ever heard that practice makes perfect? It's complete BS Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. And the more unhappy you are now, the more that way of being ingrained in you, and the better you get at it.
