<p>A close friend said&#8217; &#8220;If I could only figure this out, I think I could find happiness.&#8221; I have heard this before and will hear it again I am sure.</p>
<p>Many people believe that finding happiness is based on finding something else they want. In my experience as a personal coach, no one has ever found long term happiness by achieving another goal. Ultimately, to find happiness is to look within.</p>
<p>In other words, happiness is an inside job. The key to finding happiness is to understand that happiness is a choice and not the result. If happiness can be found as the result of an acquisition, meeting a goal, or having anything, then a person&#8217;s happiness will always be subject to something else. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2008/05/look-inside-to-find-happiness-by-miami-phillips/" title="Permanent Link: Look Inside To Find Happiness By Miami Phillips" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":32,"date":"2008-05-27T11:54:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/05\/look-inside-to-find-happiness-by-miami-phillips\/"},"modified":"2011-03-12T23:33:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T04:33:08","slug":"look-inside-to-find-happiness-by-miami-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/05\/look-inside-to-find-happiness-by-miami-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Inside To Find Happiness By Miami Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A close friend said&#8217; &#8220;If I could only figure this out, I think I could find happiness.&#8221; I have heard this before and will hear it again I am sure.<\/p>\n<p>Many people believe that finding happiness is based on finding something else they want. In my experience as a personal coach, no one has ever found long term happiness by achieving another goal. Ultimately, to find happiness is to look within.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, happiness is an inside job. The key to finding happiness is to understand that happiness is a choice and not the result. If happiness can be found as the result of an acquisition, meeting a goal, or having anything, then a person&#8217;s happiness will always be subject to something else. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/05\/look-inside-to-find-happiness-by-miami-phillips\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Look Inside To Find Happiness By Miami Phillips\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}