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More and more, I have been thinking about things in the long term rather than the short term. When Jeff Bezos spent $42 million to create the clock that ticks once a year, he was thinking very long term. Similarly, when he built Amazon, he had a long term vision for what kind of company Amazon would become so he was okay with Amazon losing money year after year as the company built out their infrastructure and operations to become leaders in the market today.
Long term thinking is one of the reasons that I enjoy books so much. In the short term, books can be boring, a grind to get through sometimes (you might think to quit these books but I can say that some of the books are worth reading through), or take a significant investment of time, focus and energy to really analyze and think about the concepts that the book is sharing.
On another note, I also see that there are articles on how to improve your happiness in different ways and I wanted to combine these two concepts together. Sure, you can probably find many, many articles on how to improve your happiness in 5 minutes but I wanted to think long term — what are the things that you can do now that will improve your happiness and mood in 10 years?
10 years you might be wondering! How can I think ahead that far? Well, you don’t have to — you just have to take a look…
