We all benefit for striving for something. This spurs us on to explore and grow.
The striving and hope, can carry us through times that are not so good, and act as life's flywheel keeping up our energy when others would fade away.
This can take many forms, from designing your own dream home, or planning that trip of a lifetime, to a new love affair, or taking on a new exciting challenge or job.
The secret to mastering this is to start by thinking really big, and then breaking the main objective down so that you have steps on the way to reaching it. This way you will have a whole series of achievements and know that the next achievement and happiness reward is not that far away.
Moving towards our goals gives us a far greater feeling of happiness than when we ultimately achieve them, and enjoying the progress also reinforces the idea that we are in control of our lives.
Start therefore by coming up with a really ambitious objective that others may well think is a hopeless dream, and remember if you aim at the moon and get half way there you are half way more than those who made no attempt.
