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Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

YAP Media Network | Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Relationships

4.7 • 890 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

You've worked hard, achieved a lot, and built a life that looks great from the outside. So why does it still feel like it's never enough? If you're someone who has checked all the boxes and still walks around with that quiet gnawing feeling that you're falling short, you're not alone. This is one of the most common things I see in my practice: driven, accomplished people who can't enjoy what they've built because the bar keeps moving and the satisfaction never comes. In this episode of the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast, I'm digging into why accomplishment so rarely leads to lasting satisfaction, and what you can actually do about it. We'll cover: Why ambition becomes a problem when it's rooted in fear rather than genuine drive The "hedonic treadmill" and why achievement will never create authentic happiness on its own How to reconnect with everything you've already accomplished and actually feel proud of it Why your self-worth and your achievements need to be separated and how to start doing that How to recognize and talk back to that inner voice that's never satisfied with you What actually creates lasting happiness according to positive psychology research Four concrete strategies you can start using today to finally feel good enough With love, Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby www.GrowingSelf.com

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1:07.5	Now let's get into today's episode.
1:12.3	Hello, this is Dr. Lisa Marie-Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast. And that was Penayye with the Gummy Bears of Failure, which I thought was an appropriately
1:50.2	titled song for today's podcast because today we are going to be talking about this
1:56.4	really ubiquitous experience of feeling like you're never quite good enough even when you are
2:05.0	really doing amazing things and I wanted to talk about this today because I see this all the
2:12.0	time in my practice I have these gorgeous I mean mean, beautiful, young, smart, talented, accomplished, I mean, just amazingly competent.
2:25.6	People come in all the time and they flop down on my couch and they start telling me about how they never, ever feel like they're good enough on paper they are just
2:36.7	amazing their friends think they're amazing their family thinks they're amazing and they're really
2:41.5	I mean just so accomplished but still in their hearts they never feel like they have ever
2:49.4	arrived they cannot enjoy the successes that they've had. And I think it's sad and I think it's also very common. And so that's why I wanted to talk about this today. Just in case you might be one of these superstars who just never feels like you're quite up to snuff.
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