Will achieving your goals actually make you happier?

Mental Makeover

Lauren Curtis

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It probably sounds like a strange question to ask, but there's a reason I'm asking it. Sure, there's an undeniable sense of fulfilment and accomplishment that comes with achieving a goal you've been working towards for a while, but if we're all being honest, how long did you actually stop and let that win sink in for? Did you even stop at all? Or were you too busy working towards the next big goal? Why are we all so quick to set up a new target once we have reached our old one? Perhaps it's because we think that constantly hitting targets and reaching goals will make us happier, more confident, more valued and respected by others, more successful, more worthy, more fulfilled. Why else would we set goals, right? But if you look back on your life right now, on all that you've achieved, did the accumulation of those achievements culminate in a better quality of life? Or did you kind of forget about them? Were those goals set in the interest of finding happiness, or feeding the ego? All of this is not to say that goals aren't important - quite the opposite - it's to encourage you to reflect on all of these questions, to stop and appreciate all that you have already achieved, to audit your future goals and decipher whether or not they are feeding the soul or the ego, and subsequently whether or not they're worth reaching for. If you'd like to hear my in-depth thoughts about it all, listen in :) And if you enjoyed the episode, please don't forget to subscribe, rate and review. Thank you x

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to the Mental Makeover podcast. I'm Lauren Curtis. You've probably heard the phrase the grass is always greener on the other side, but I believe it's greener where you water it.
0:12.2	This podcast is here to provide you with meaningful advice from myself and others in order to give your little patch of grass the best chance to grow and flourish.
0:23.4	Hello, hello, hello. Thank you for tuning in. I would like today's episode to serve as a reminder
0:32.5	to you that every once in a while it is really important for you to stop, sit and reflect on how
0:43.2	far you've come in any or all aspects of your life and to sit down for a little bit longer
0:52.1	and think to yourself, contemplate if that is actually far enough
1:00.0	in itself, as you are, where you are right now, or if you do indeed need to keep going further.
1:09.0	Let me elaborate.
1:19.1	So, you might have a goal to achieve something and you're currently rushing, rushing, rushing working your little butt off to get to that goal. And then when
1:25.6	you reach that goal, which I'm sure you inevitably will you'll set a goal
1:30.6	that's a little bit harder a little bit further out of your reach and you'll hustle some more
1:35.6	and then you'll eventually reach that goal and that is basically how we live our lives I feel
1:40.4	like as a society we really value busyness and always being productive and achieving
1:46.9	something and being successful in whichever field or industry that might be in.
1:54.2	Industry is probably not even the right word.
1:56.0	It could be like family life or it could be business.
1:58.5	It could be spirituality.
1:59.8	It could be anything.
2:03.2	And if you look back on as far back in your life as you can remember probably when you were a teenager and you really
2:10.3	started to set like intentional goals or serious goals and those goals would have at that time seemed really hard to
2:22.2	achieve and then you achieve them and then you set new ones and then you achieve them and then you
2:25.8	set new ones or maybe you change the goal and then you achieve that one or you take a different
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