Just be.

A man once told the Buddha,

“I want happiness.”

The Buddha replied,

“First remove the ‘I’, that’s ego.

Then remove ‘want’, that’s desire.

And now all you are left with is

Happiness.”

Sometimes it takes realizing what was there all along, to get what you’ve always wanted.

In some ways we are all “wannabes”, I know I am. There are things that I have always, always wanted to be. But when you spend so much time simply wanting something, you end up putting distance between yourself and your goal. I think there are times, when used appropriately, that living in the future becomes the best way to reach the future you want.

Extraordinary people live their lives backwards; they create a future and then live into it.

Rather than being a wannabe, just be. 

If you can look at yourself and say that you’ve already accomplished all of your wildest dreams…you eliminate self-doubt. If you can make yourself believe it, you will believe in yourself. It sounds so simple, doesn’t it? And yet, with our greatest enemies often living between our own two ears, it can make such an impact on the future...