I Can’t Get No… Satisfaction…

“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.” Anatole France

Develop a sense of how you celebrate achieving a goal. Decide exactly when you have accomplished what you set out to do and consciously decide to celebrate it. Bask in your glory! And with others if you can! Be satisfied!

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“Place a great value on your accomplishments.”

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2015. Here we all are! I’m sure you have all been sufficiently been overloaded with images and various social media posts about motivation and resolutions. Let’s face it – it is a cultural ritual that will never go away. No need for it go away either, because each year there is a percentage of people who actually achieve their goals and I challenge you to be one of them and to celebrate them!

Let me draw your attention to something that often gets missed. It sounds obvious, common sense even, but I don’t think it is. Here it is. You must decide when to reward yourself. A common interruption in our ability to fully complete an experience is to not allow satisfaction to occur. We do something, criticize how it could have been better and then compare it away with other achievements we deem superior. Usually achieved by other people.

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There’s often a real reticence to enter into satisfaction as an experience, based on social phrases such as “who do you think you are?’ or “don’t rest on your laurels!” and “well, could be better, got a long way to go.” These phrases keep us going for sure, but they skate over actually feeling a sense of accomplishment and reward.

Eventually we will find the meaning of it all slipping out of our engagements because, well, what’s the point? Being satisfied is really a form of celebration that something has been mastered, overcome, met a need or transported us into a new arena or a new level.

The achievement of a goal generally happens gradually, sometimes so gradually we just morph the goal into another one with no break, no transition and no recognition. Here are my recommendations about how to generate a sense of satisfaction from actually doing the thing you set out to do.

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“Oh stop showing off for goodness sake…”

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“That’s SATISFACTION! Spread the love!”

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1) Tell a trusted friend what you have achieved and what it means to you. You know, a good friend, the kind that will talk to you like a therapist does.

2) Recognize what you are now offering having achieved your goal. More confidence for what? A fitter you, for what? A newly trained you, for whom? Be of service! Spread the love! Share the wealth!

3) Anchor your achievement with objects. Buy an item that symbolizes success — get a new wardrobe, or better yet, give something away that no longer serves you. Move stuff around because of what you’ve done; changes in your environment remain while you may forget!

4) Relax about what you have done. Curiously, the hallmark of true achievement is to lose interest in it. You’ve done it, you’ve squeezed the learning and the benefit from it. When a meal satisfies us we push the plate away and say “no more.”

5) Allow some “nothing” for a while. Interest is interesting, but it has to be authentic; it has to arise and show itself as we notice where we want to go next. When we miss satisfaction, don’t celebrate and skip on to the next goal, we don’t allow our contact to fully form and recede naturally. We go on to the next soulless task like a robot. Experience a slight “nothing” after completion and visit some places, chat with interesting people or research a new topic. Let your interest pique naturally and you’ll be on your way to seeing and feeling the next adventure.

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