We are all guilty of it—deferring our happiness to the future.
You’ll spend more time with your partner after you finish the project.
You’ll stop working 14 hours a day when you’ve saved more money.
You’ll go on a holiday when work eases off.
The quality of our work is commensurate with the balance of our life and mind. Our best ideas often happen between the lines. Not when you are narrowly focused on something, but while you are making a cup of tea. Not after you’ve spent hours and hours grinding on the project, but during your morning run.
There’s no happiness in the future. Any experience can only happen in the present moment. We wait to start living. But we don’t live while we’re waiting.