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Jake Burhans argues that chasing external goals to fill an inner void never works. Real happiness comes from choosing gratitude and self-acceptance first, then pursuing external goals without letting them define your worth.
Jake Burhans argues that chasing external goals to fill an inner void never works. Real happiness comes from choosing gratitude and self-acceptance first, then pursuing external goals without letting them define your worth.
If we can just stop chasing external things, doesn't mean that you can't have them. It just means don't seek them out of lack because you don't feel okay on the inside, so you're trying to get these things to make you feel okay. It's not going to. You have to choose to be happy. You have to choose to be grateful. And it's a lot easier said than done. It's the hardest thing, and it's the work that we do our entire life, is to feel that we are enough and feel grateful and loved and all those things from the get-go. And then you seek these things secondarily.
