A Brief Happiness, “But…”

No matter how I look at it, life seems full of suffering. While good things happen from time to time, we must learn how to live alongside ongoing pain.

1. Winter: A Season of Pain

• Life and business are like the changing seasons. Like the rain or wind, nothing comes with a warning. We cannot change the seasons, but we can change ourselves.
• Winter always comes — be it short or long — in the form of economic, health, or relationship challenges. Don’t just hope for the problems to stop; grow your capacity to solve them. Don’t wish it were summer — spring and summer only come after winter.
• Solving fundamental personal issues is essential. Realizing your problems is already a big step, but knowing how to deal with them is just as important.
• What exactly is my problem? This question is crucial. If you don’t know how to solve it, it will repeat.
• Stop dwelling on “If only I had...” or “I wish I hadn't...”

2. Spring: A Season of Reward

• Spring = Opportunity. But it’s short-lived.
• No matter how hard life is, remember that spring will come — and that it won’t last forever.

3. Summer: A Season of Endurance

• A time of waiting. Pests (both external and internal) will try to attack what you have. Summer is the time to defend what’s yours.
• Protecting something is just as hard as gaining it. Like a father protecting his family — fight.
• Internal enemies to avoid at all costs: indifference, laziness, indecisiveness, and most dangerously — self-doubt.
• Especially self-doubt: “I feel like I’ll never get better” — this mindset is extremely dangerous*.*
• Fight both internal and external enemies. Protect yourself.