The Life You Have While Chasing the Life You Want

In this episode of A Little Zen, A Little Mess, Seema asks a deceptively simple question: What are you really chasing? We spend so much of our lives pursuing bigger homes, better careers, more money, success, recognition and relationships, believing that once we have them, we'll finally feel happy, safe, loved or enough. But what if we're not really chasing the things themselves? What if we're chasing the feelings we believe those things will give us? Through a simple story about a dream home and a forgotten little balcony, this episode explores the difference between what we want and what we truly need—and why sometimes the feeling we've been searching for has been quietly present in our lives all along. Because ambition isn't wrong. Wanting more isn't wrong. But don't make “more” the price of your happiness. Maybe happiness isn't waiting for you at the finish line.Maybe it's been walking beside you the whole time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices