How can you balance being happy with working towards success?

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Please, correct me if I’m wrong, but I sense from the question that you believe that being successful happens at the expense your own personal well-being, therefore you’re asking how you can reduce that gap. Isn’t it?

To me, real happiness is actually equal to success.

I define success as doing what really matters to you, while not worrying or pressured about what others feel about it or what society says you’re supposed to do. In this sense, being successful has nothing to do with external approval, fame, money or status.

And happiness, as I see it, is the quality of being ok with the natural unfolding of events and embracing with gratitude whatever comes in your journey, making the most of it and knowing that’s always going to benefit you. It’s all about being at peace with yourself be being who you truly are.

If you’re “pursuing” success, that means you believe you don’t have it, so you’ll forever be in a state of lack and wanting about being successful. The same happens with happiness.

It means that you’re trying to get somewhere, so that will always create resistance to precisely get there while getting frustrated and far from who you truly are in the way.

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is…