How to live your best life

 Owning Your Happiness-Escaping the Achievement Trap In a world obsessed with success and achievement, it’s easy to forget the value of peace and inner happiness . Many of us have been there: we hit goal after goal, yet something inside still feels empty. That’s because we often tie our happiness to what we achieve next, rather than where we are right now. I recently dove into Chapter 4, “Own Your Happiness” , from Maria Hatzistefanis’s book How to Live Your Best Life . This chapter changed something in me. It made me realize that true happiness doesn’t just come from outward success, but from how we think and perceive our own lives. This November 2025 has been transformative not because my external circumstances changed, but because I changed inside. What Is the Achievement Trap? We live in a society that praises achievements big promotions, grand milestones, and constant progress. But this mindset can lead to a toxic cycle. We start believing that happiness is always just ahea...

We as humans need to rest, we are not machines. We made ourselves chase what our mind wants, what we think can give us peace and success. But we are totally wrong about it. I, being a civil engineer, my dream was to study civil engineering and start some kind of startup in the same field. I wanted to study in the top most universities of Pakistan, because I’ve always been an average student, I was never a topper but I had failed in many subjects. I might be the one who scored the lowest in her exams in the whole family. I thought studying in a top university would change things, my family would accept me with the average personality I have, I’d find friends, maybe good enough to find a loyal partner. But things got completely opposite. I indeed got friends, but at each moment where they should be with me, they betrayed. And yeah, I got one friend, a good one tho, thankful to him for being with me in the bads. But that person is still the opposite gender, I thought things will get easy ...