Why doesn't the satisfaction of reaching a goal last very long?

The path to eternal contentment, no, eternal happiness is to enjoy the journey. We did not come to 'get it done'. We came to create. We came to come up with an idea of something that would be better (could be the temperature in the room being warmer or global peace or worldwide happiness or anything) and then move toward that goal knowing that we can achieve our dreams if we just move in that direction and follow our guidance. It is not the accomplishment that brings us our satisfaction and pleasure; it is the moving toward our Ideal Self which keeps changing because we can never stop finding ways to make things better. isn't that wonderful? That we continually think of ways to make things better and better and better? We can't help it; it is what we do. When we don't move in the direction of our dreams we feel awful and when we do we feel great. If we tell ourselves we cannot be happy until the goal is achieved we narrow down our happiness to such short periods, perhaps an afternoon for something we work on for days, months, years. Enjoy the moving toward part and you can have a joyous journey. One of my favorite sayings is to 'Savor the Desire Without Doubt" - when you come up with an idea, for example in 2009 I decided to go on a 3 1/2 week trip to Australia and New Zealand with friends, had no idea how I would swing this - still in my working years and it was somewhat expensive but as soon as I felt that strong desire of wanting to go I said "OK, I am going ... don't know how but I am going" and savored the desire without doubt. EVERYTHING came together perfectly, better than I could have planned and we had a fantastic time. But you know what, I enjoyed that trip for a full year before I actually went and enjoyed it because I just kept savoring the desire and belief that I was going.

You were born to launch new desires and then to follow those desires.

Your guidance comes from your gut, from your emotions. When something feels right in your gut don't doubt.. as you follow your guidance you can get so good at it you actually KNOW things before there is any physical evidence.

For example, my boyfriend was talking about going to New Orleans to watch Michigan beat VT in January but seemed undecided. Someone was coming to our town on business and needed me to be here. In that conversation I told her "Don't come before the 5th because I will be in New Orleans watching MI beat VT". As I said the words I knew they were truth even though my boyfriend had not made arrangements yet. I could feel that there was no resistance to the words; they were accurate and true. Later in the afternoon yesterday he brought a printout showing he had bought our tickets to go to the game and the alumni pre-game tailgate and my response was "of course'. Your guidance comes from your higher self and is unerring. It is learning how to read it that takes practice. If you notice that you have a feeling about something, even if you choose not to follow it and later you realize why you should have followed it go back to the way it felt when you had the feeling and poke around at how that felt so you are more familiar with the feeling and more likely to recognize it for the guidance it is when you feel it. In that way you will become more confident in your guidance over time.

Because the satisfaction has to ACTUALLY come from the pursuit of the goal, not just in the successful reaching of it.

A goal being reached happens only for an instant. A few months ago, I finished writing a novel. Was it an amazing accomplishment? Sure. Did the feeling last long? No. Did I adore the hard work, joy, and heartache that came from days and weeks and months of toil? Absolutely.

Reaching a goal lasts a moment. You have to learn to find satisfaction in the daily, weekly and monthly hard work that gets you to the goal.

The entire point behind procrastination: we always know we have something to work towards because we never finish anything before the next thing comes up. Plus, while we wait for the next thing to come up, we get to work towards the never-ending goal of having fun! ;)

It does make me wonder why we set goals at all, though, if we just reach a goal to set another one...

After achieve it we feel proud, you can tell people "hey I done this or that".

You bother reaching a new goal to feel satisfied with yourself. To know that you accomplished something and knowing you don't give up.

I used to have goals but they all fell apart when i realized that the only way ill mean something is if I can do something to make me memorized but that's very hard I still have no idea what to do

Goals once achieved

get their revenge,

when you're deceived

a final goal

waits in a syringe.

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