your list should get bigger
Mon, June 6, 2011 | 1 Comment | 
Taylor Swift is a successful young musician.
She was listed in People magazine’s November 1, 2010 edition as being #12 on Forbes Celebrity Power list. She is the youngest ever to win the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year. She earns an estimated $45 million per year. This has given her an extraordinary life and she has experienced a lifetime’s worth of adventures.
In a short period of time, she has traveled the world, she has met and gotten to know celebrities and famous people of all kinds. Top politicians, the United States president, and giants of Wall Street have all crossed her path.
So after all of this, what has Ms. Taylor discovered about what matters in life? She has a unique vantage point and her impressions are worth listening to. So what does she think?
“I think sometimes as people gain success the list of things that makes them happy gets smaller,” she explains, “but i think your list should get bigger.”
Wise words! It seems Ms. Taylor is mature beyond her years.
She makes such a good point. Instead of experiencing joy from a wider and wider range of experiences as we go through life its easy to become jaded and bored, unsatisfied and looking for bigger and bigger thrills.
Want to really enjoy the life you lead? A good starting point is being grateful for and taking pleasure from the seemingly little things of everyday life.
That’s a lesson you can learn at any stage of your life, but the sooner the better.
Even a former #1 golfer has learned this lesson recently. As Tiger Woods now says, "I’ve found you don’t have to win championships to be happy. For example, I’ve learned that some of the most fun times I have are giving my son Charlie a bath.""