Your most important goal in life is to assure your own happiness. If you do not place your own happiness as the central organizing principle of your own life, no one else will do it for you. Each person is intensely focused on doing the things that make him or her happy. As much as we care about the happiness of others, in a natural, automatic and instinctive way, our happiness always seems to take precedence over that of anyone else’s.
Often, unhappy people say that they are sacrificing their own happiness so that they can make others happy. But the rule is that, “You cannot give away what you don’t have. You cannot make other people happy if you are unhappy yourself.”
If you want to have happy children, be a happy parent. If you want happy employees and coworkers, be a happy boss and colleague. If you want to have happy customers, be a happy salesperson. If you want to improve the quality of the life of anyone else, begin by improving the quality of your own inner life.
Culled from Million Dollar Habits by Brian Tracy
Abdulkareem,Taoheedah Kehinde
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