The Grasshopper offered this consumable tidbit over the weekend: “Your life situation can always be better; your life needs no improvement.”

One of the questions my friend, Terry Butler used to ask when on a sales call was: “How can you be happier?” He was searching for the area he needed to zero in on. He knew everyone could be happier.

Life is a constant chase for happiness for most. Advertisers know that, marketers know that, politicians know that. I call this phenomenon “Chasing the horizon.”

There is no permanent state of happiness. Yes, you can always be happier but there is never an everlasting arrival at happy. Perpetual happiness is a lure away from reality.

Would you rather be happy or feel peace?

Our conditioning has us answer in favor of happiness when what we are really looking for is peace.

Your life situation has you seek the temporary solution – happiness. Your life is peace itself. The life force that courses through every living thing is pure peace and it just sits there waiting for us to discover it.

A state of peace needs no improvement. There are no levels of peace; it’s one size fits all.

Enjoy happiness when it arrives and celebrate it as long as it stays. Just don’t chase it or you’ll be like a dog chasing its tail.

Your time will be better spent experiencing the peace that you already own. It’s what shows up when you stop chasing the horizon.

You’ll be happier than most when you discover that peace is what you really want. It’s closer than your next happy moment.

All the best,

John