Happiness is a difficult subject to concretely define, and many people have many various opinions about what would constitute happiness.
How do you exactly determine what happiness is? Is a certain lifestyle, a certain behavior, a certain world view? People have a variety of opinions. Some argue that money is the key to happiness.
A certain radio host argues that happiness is a serious problem and in fact achieving it is a moral obligation. Some have even suggested that the art of setting and achieving goals is the key to happiness. Is this really the case or is there something much more complicated to the idea of being happy?
Some people would equate happiness with having a good time or achieving a great deal of material wealth. Others would have a more philosophical or religious viewpoint which looks at happiness as a virtuous life – that is, a disciplined life well led according to certain moral or ethical principles.
I tend to agree with the latter of these two points. However, I believe it must also be said that complete happiness in this life requires a combination of the above options. In other words, we need to have a certain amount of material wealth and career success in order to achieve a truly complete happiness.
A little extra money is always certainly helpful, but if its coupled with a plan towards achieving your goals a little can go a long way.
It has been said many times that money cannot buy happiness, and I would have to agree strongly with this proposition. Yet, anyone who has struggled to survive financially knows that simply focusing on ethics will make it extremely difficult to achieve complete happiness.
Setting goals could actually help you achieve both types of objectives. There is no reason why you cannot combine financial, social, and career goals with more spiritual goals that focus on your character and the type of person you want to be in your everyday life.
No matter what it is you are trying to achieve, setting goals dramatically increases the likelihood that you will achieve these objectives. If you want the greatest chance possible of having a happy and prosperous life (as well as an ethically or religiously grounded life), then each of these needs should be specifically planned for and set as goals for your life.
Perhaps in this sense, we can assert that setting goals is at least one of the keys to happiness.
Jacob Lumbroso is a writer and an enthusiast for foreign languages, history, and foreign cultures. He recommends http://ottomansforsale.org/ for anyone looking to buy Ottomans for Sale.
{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }
nice post. yes setting goals is one of the keys to achieve success and happiness but it is often abandoned halfway.nowadays most people are looking for instant gratification otherwise we wouldnt have high statistic of people with credit card maxed out. perhaps the most important thing that we need to teach people is not only to set goals because they can always abandon them halfway but most importantly to be able to achieve that goals..