Just a thought that I need to read a little on but my husband and I had a deep convo this weekend about how to stay happy -Seems like the more we try and achieve the shallower the victory? Or maybe its just that the bigger the goals that are reached the super duper bigger the next task has to be to get that same accomplished feeling? And maybe that is what leads us to bigger houses, newer cars and more "stuff"?
"The endless pursuit of more creates artificial poverty." Amen to that...it is human nature - in my most recent goal setting (weight loss last year), I set a goal of five pounds, when I reached that - I changed my goal to ten pounds. When I achieved that, then ten percent of my body weight - and so on, until I finally reached my weight watchers goal. My good friend looked at me and said, "Enough - this is a slippery slope. Stop where you are." Stopping is hard because the high that you feel from attaining the goal feeds the frenzy. What is hard is maintaining after the goal is reached because you still feel like you need to work on that part of your life. Why do workaholics continue to run the rat race? Because they have achieved their goal and have set the next goal higher. With work, I have to keep myself from being there 24/7 or I would because the tasks to accomplish in teaching are endless, the pile of periodicals to read fills the library, the sites on the internet to visit are unending....and yet, no matter how much I do-it is still up to the individual child and whether or not they will accept/learn/work on algebra. So, this rambling must stop - but, we all need to work on the task of satisfaction so we don't get caught up in the endless pursuit of MORE...
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