Are you the kind of person who has to constantly advance to be happy or are you happy with what you have right now? I personally find that to be happy I have to have reasonably low expectations but that doesn’t really stop me from advancement. I just have minimal expectations and prefer to be pleasantly surprised if things go better than I expect. Many people however require a constant elevation in status to be happy, keeping happiness a moving target only in grasp for a short period. Which do you prefer and why? I feel like this is related to gratitude and living in the moment instead of living in either the future or the past.