LifeFulfillment Vs Life Achievement

Fulfillment can only be experienced in the moment. Engaged in something you enjoy doing. Not caring about the result. Achievement is secondary to the experience of fulfillment.

The moment something has been achieved it’s already in the past! Relishing victory is reliving a peak moment, even if it were only moments ago. This can feel good for only so long before present moments become dull, boring, and otherwise transient until the next victory is achieved.  This is the process of addiction.

Achievement brings about a temporary state of fulfillment, like working towards an orgasm you are driven by the expectancy of achievement. Achievement itself is a climatic expression of what you expected. However if the former work bears no fruit, and the work itself was attached to an outcome, disappointment results in proportion to the expectancy.

Disappointment is a much stronger emotion than the elation of achievement. It’s also a breeding ground for negativity. A negative focus leads to undesirable emotions & destructive acts. There is little room for fulfillment in an environment like this.

But alas fulfillment is possible in any moment; possible, but unlikely until a decision is made to first untangle the confusion between fulfillment and achievement and then give fulfillment higher priority.