Okay, so here's the scenario. You're standing in your kitchen or your office or you're sitting in a car

driveway and you've just done the thing. You landed the job you've been chasing for years. You hit the

number in your bank account or maybe on the scale. You sign the deal, publish the book,

cross the finish line, moved into the house. For so long, this was the line

in the sand. When this happened, you think, then I'll finally exhale. Then I'll feel proud. Then I'll

feel okay. And people around you are saying, you must be so happy. I mean, this is huge. This is

what you've been working

so hard for for so long. And it finally happened. You made it happen. You smile and you nod and you say,

yeah, it's really amazing. And some part of you is happy. But if you're really being honest, there's also this quiet,

unsettling question in the background.

Why don't I feel the way I thought I would?

The highs fade faster than you expected.

Your nervous system resets to the same restless, kind of a low-grade

hum. And almost without thinking, your mind starts reaching for the next milestone.

Okay, I mean, this is great you think to yourself, but if I can just get, you know, like there,

somewhere out there, then I'll really be good.

And we do this with our bodies. We do it with money, with success, with relationships, with parenting,

with creativity, with our professional lives. Whole years of our lives, sometimes entire seasons, are organized around

that invisible promise. I'll be happy when. I'll be satisfied when. I'll be good when. I'll finally

feel the way I want to feel when.

But what happens when the quote,

when keeps moving?

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