Aristotle once said, “Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.” We’ve been taught that the single most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. Having a goal keeps our mind focused on that goal, and allows us to successfully rise above the many challenges that will come our way.
But what if we don’t have goals? Will we succeed? More importantly, will we be happy? What if these very goals that we’ve created are the impediments to our own happiness? Instead of becoming happy with our present lives, we feel empty and lacking because we have not reached all the goals that we have set out for ourselves. We always feel that happiness is still one goal away, despite reaching several of our goals. “I’ll be happy if I get the promotion,” or “I’ll be happy if I stop traveling too much and spend more time with my family.”
New book by Stephen M. Shapiro shows us that exciting opportunities and new possibilities exist all around us, and that the “life we really want” is already here!
Read book summary of Goal-Free Living: How to Have the Life You Want NOW!
