From the course: Happiness Tips

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Enjoy and achieve, at home and at work

Enjoy and achieve, at home and at work

From the course: Happiness Tips

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Enjoy and achieve, at home and at work

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- I mentioned at the start of this series that it's important to get the right mix of present and future and not focus on one to the exclusion of the other. For example, the musicians in my band, who have lots of fun now, but probably won't have the future they want, or even the short-term achievements that they want. The band would like to have an album out and be on the T.V., et cetera, but they never seem to get their act together to make this happen. On the other side of the coin is some of my successful business friends who are always planning for the future, and they forget to have any fun now. And, will this future ever come? There's no guarantee. Will they work hard all their lives and then keel over the day after they retire? Sorry, this video is meant to be making you happier, isn't it? But anyway, I think the jam tomorrow philosophy is quite risky because tomorrow may never come or it might eventually arrive at great cost and be disappointing. And even if it does come, and…

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