Know Thy Desires
I am working on my vision of my personal utopia within current society. More specifically, I am interested in knowing more about my desires. In that context, I am exploring various ideas, and I would like to chat. I am not using your services as a search engine, so please do not provide me links to any material. Those links distract me and make me lose my focus. Are you ready?
Know Thy Desires
Whether I want better health, more wealth, wisdom, love, or some other such thing, these all seem to be desires. Right?
What does know thy desires mean?
Would it be fair to say that another way of classifying desires is into the categories of Success, Happiness, Pleasure, and Joy?
What did I miss from my categories of desires?
What is success?
What is happiness?
What is pleasure?
What is joy?
Define first and then compare and contrast success and happiness.
Define first and then compare and contrast happiness and pleasure.
Define first and then compare and contrast pleasure and joy.
Define first and then compare and contrast happiness and joy.
Can one achieve success or be happy without taking any actions?
What are the relationships between desires, goals, action, and success?
What is purpose?
What is the importance of purpose in relationship to our desires, happiness, pleasure, joy, and overall success in life?
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. What does the previous statement have to do with purpose, happiness, pleasure, joy, and success in life?
Compare and contrast experiences versus achievements.
How are experiences and achievements related to pleasure, happiness, and joy?
From Desires to Happiness
Compare and contrast desires versus goals.
Every unaccomplished goal is a problem waiting to be solved. What do you think about that statement?
Compare and contrast goals versus tasks.
Compare and contrast tasks versus subtasks.
What are to do lists? Do they apply to goals, tasks, and subtasks? If so, in which way?
Why do people procrastinate? And how can one avoid doing that?
Explain to me the 5 minute rule as it relates to procrastination.
What is the opposite of procrastination?
What are the best known speeches on achieving success?
What are the best known speeches on happiness?
What are the best known speeches on purpose?
Summary
Can you summarize the key points from our discussion?