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The only real goal I have in living is to be happy. The real challenge of course is to be truly honest with yourself about the things that make you happy (not just what makes your friends or family happy) and having the courage to make life decisions that you allow to do these things more often.

My moving to live and work in a ski resort in Japan for example was a huge life changing event. I took a massive pay decrease and gave up a successful career in Australia to follow one of my great passions in life. Luckily my wife indulged me in this somewhat crazy scheme. We moved away from everything we knew, our friends and family mostly just so I could indulge more in the thing that makes me happier than anything else in this world, skiing deep powder snow. A bit selfish of me I guess but to be truly happy I think you have to be a little selfish.

I've certainly never been happier!