You Can't Find Happiness

You Can't Find Happiness

Gary Goldhammer Gary Goldhammer

Gary Goldhammer

Content strategist, PwC AI R&D and Emerging Technology | ex-WPP, Edelman | B2B content marketing | executive comms | Enterprise AI | writer and author

发布日期: 2024年9月9日
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YOU ARE ON THE EDGE OF A CLIFF.

You have two choices: stay where you are, or move ahead. Most of us would pick the former, or better yet go back to solid ground. To stand still.

And wait.

Maybe your calling will find you there. Maybe your dreams will come for you, ready to give you purpose.

Maybe you will be happy, but more than likely you will just be…

Waiting.

For happiness to arrive. For certainty to anchor. For something, anything to happen because you’ve been so damn patient and deserving and spent time with people for all the wrong reasons and now you’re alone and that’s fine but now you realize waiting isn’t what comes before the thing, waiting has become the thing.

And then you’re back on the cliff.

But maybe this time you leap.

Because now you know can’t find happiness, it has to find you. You have to trust yourself and create your own purpose. You have to go over the edge.

Because sometimes we wait too long for our dreams to come to us.

TJ Kelly

Executive Leader and Strategic Advisor | Transforming communications and marketing organizations with a growth mindset for impactful growth and success

6 个月

Love the image of the cliff and finding it all over again, and again. The jump starts with a little step!!

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