Oh, and write posts like these. I don’t have everything figured out by any means – I should be taking my own advice! That’s part of the reason I write.

Just enjoying the moment.

Thanks for the great post. What do you do to remind yourself to enjoy the moment?

Matt, this is something I think about all the time too. I agree with you, we are always looking for the next best thing, because we’ve been so conditioned to keep achieving (by parents, teachers, etc). We never stop to enjoy our success – at least I don’t, or not for long enough.

Btw, thanks for your post that inspired this one. You touched on something I had never thought of – that millennials are chasing happiness. In some ways it’s a good thing, but there are caveats too.

Once again you hit on the topic that continually keeps me thinking. How you define success for Gen-Y is much more arbitrary than it is within older generations. Happiness is not measurable, like money is for instance, and as a recent relationship has taught me, is not always noticeable. My happiness is not a smile, its a content-ness, with my actions, with the way I lead my daily life. But a main characterisitc of Gen-Y in my opinion is to almost never be content. A lot of us see things the way they are and continually ask for more, failing multiple times on the way to achieving the next level. And when we get there, its on to something else. You are absolutely right when you say its time to stop chasing, and start living. Great Post!

I still think thought that we own what it is in our control, so it is necessery to do what we can towards the achievement of our goals, but know that there are no guarantees that these goals will be reached and just let go of the things we can’t control.