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I just want to be happy. But what makes a person happy? Is happiness really just about your outlook or perspective? I feel as though I’ve fallen into a rut and I want to break out! Will more money make me happy? Will more free time make me happy? I used to think I was unstoppable; that I could do anything. What changed? I had purpose. I had a goal. I was a work in progress. I had something to look forward to. Now, I’m not so sure what my goal is. I want to make $100,000 a year… but how? It’s not really so much about the money. I mean sure, I want to make more money so that I can afford a certain lifestyle. But I want to enjoy what I’m doing too. I want to have my cake and eat it. Many times I’ve told people that they can in fact have their cake and eat it too. Why not? The world is at your fingertips, I would say. You can have anything you want, you just have to take action and get it. Maybe I’m answering my own question: my problem is that I don’t know what I want. As soon as I stop having a definitive goal to work towards I became more focused on what I didn’t want or what I didn’t like about my life. I think that in order to feel happy, I need to have a definitive goal: a purpose. It’s so basic. I know this, and yet I’ve fallen into a rut. So then all I need to do is figure out what my goal is. No big deal. I just need to figure out what’s my purpose in life. It would make sense for my goal to be to become a buyer. That’s what I had been working towards originally. But I think I got scared that being a buyer is not really my calling. Now I’m so close that I could almost taste it if I cared to. I’m an “associate” buyer at a company that’s growing 50% annually- I should be a buyer in no time- within a year. By the time I’m 25! I would always tell myself, I want to be a buyer by the time I’m 25. So what changed? Why have I stopped caring about my goal? Is it because I’ve become so close to achieving it? If happiness is really all about your perspective then it shouldn’t really have much to do with what being a buyer entails. For some reason, I’ve let the stress of having a corporate job, the stress of running a business get to me. Do I just need to shift my paradigm? Or am I feeling this way because I need a bigger change: a different goal? A different carreer? I’ve wanted so many things. To be famous. To be a reality TV star. To be a personal trainer.To be a model. To be a hair stylist. To be a cosmetologist. To write a book. It seems I’m more of a dreamer than anything. The truth is, if I were to focus on just one thing, I think I could be great. No, I know I could be great. I’m just not sure which thing I will be great at. How will I know? Some people just seem so sure of what they want. I should know, I used to be one of them.