Staying in your lane and focusing on the path towards internal happiness is fundamental in achieving success, or that's what I believe success is, anyway. Because everyone's success is subjective, based on what each person believes is success, it creates a framework for what success really is.

Over the last few days, I've lost focus and drifted out of my lane. I'm injured at the moment, and not that that's an excuse, but through being unable to complete my processes and routine I have drifted from my lane - the pathway that I know creates my fundamental happiness through growth, understanding, drive, and subsequent success. Sometimes we all drift outside our lane for various reasons. However, recognition and readjustment to realign ourselves back into the fold is essential in continuing our journey towards a successful life.

It's easy to sway in and out of our lane, lose focus, and allow outside influences, bad luck, or a state of loss to affect our pathway and simply lose ourselves for a bit. The state of realization, however, is very normal, and without it, we will never see what that true pathway actually is. I've learned enough in my life now to find realization in what truly makes me happy and what my fundamental drivers and key performance indicators will be in order for me to achieve success in my life and success in the search for happiness.

I have mentioned many times throughout this journey that I am, in fact, a very happy person. This journey and the title may seem like I am searching for an aspect of my life that is missing; however, on the contrary, I am analysing different perspectives as well as deciphering my own perception. Through writing and drawing additional feelings revolving around happiness, I aim to gain a deeper insight into what and how I feel about it. In doing so, I hope to create dialogue and knowledge around how we can all find different avenues towards achieving happiness, maintaining happiness, and possibly resurrecting happiness.

Understanding what you need in your own lane and the different facets that contribute to ensuring you stay on course are vitally important, but those elements are all internal. It's important to look deep within yourself for yourself and evaluate what is truly important and essential to you. When you can see what formulates those requirements, you can create controls and indicators to recognize when you may sway from the path, as well as how to realign when you do.

Part of succeeding in our search go happiness, is both understanding the elements of our lives that make us happy, recognising when we are out of alignment with said elements, and realigning to stay on track.

Thanks,

Dean