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Happy, Healthy and Ordinary — The Simple Art of Living in the Now and Enjoying the Process
Having nothing to lose is incredibly powerful
It’s impossible to focus on the journey when the destination is so far away.
There is this notion that the destination equates to happiness. By default then, those that are the most successful, should, in theory, be the happiest. But then this quote makes no sense:
“The year after ‘Subtle Art’ came out I was the most depressed I’d been since I was a teenager.”- Mark Manson
It sat with me for a while. In a recent interview, Mark Manson describes what I call the ‘post-destination-dip’. In other words, when everything you dream of comes true and you realise there’s nothing left. Maybe, just maybe, being being ordinary isn’t so bad.
Why you don’t actually want to succeed
It happened to me, albeit on a much smaller scale than Manson.
I wrote for 8 months straight, with little to show for it, $10 a month type of vibes. I would type away almost every day and get nothing in return (financially). 700 hours and nothing was working. My dream was to hit the big time, my reality was…
