So whilst the achievement of goals and outcomes makes you feel good fleetingly, the constant pressure and drive for success, stresses you unconsciously and wears you down, ultimately eroding your true happiness. In Positive Psychology this is described as the ' hedonic treadmill' and is an enemy to human happiness. you get lost in the constant drive for more. And along the way, if you aren't careful. the more you follow the model, the more success you enjoy and achieve, the more reinforced you are to continue making bigger and bigger dreams, goals and outcomes and the more you focus on achieving more. if you follow it slavishly, you'll end up on the treadmill of a ' more the more pattern'.
It's very seductive and it does support success. It's about more passion, fun and achievement NOW!!! This is a model that fields like NLP have been promulgating and installing for over 30 years and it has crept insidiously into many areas of management, training, education and marketing. This is the model that says that no matter how good life is, we can always make it better. The challenge is that modern society has grabbed onto the Generative Model of Change. Transcendental change versus Generative Change
Isn't it the case that we sometimes put too much value on quantity at the cost of quality? And too much focus on doing versus simply ' being' - making quality time to enjoy the simple pleasures of being alive on this wonderful planet?
His response, and one that runs as a thread throughout the many blog entries I've shared with you, is that creating ' Quality Time' in your life is one of the most important skills and activities that you can do to enhance your life.Īs Rick points out, too often people focus on achievement and on rushing from one goal to the next - and in doing so, they don't remember to sit back and savour and enjoy the journey. Looking out over the absolutely stunning view, and with a glass of heavenly red in my hand, I asked my friend Rick Stockdale, one of the co-owners of the estate, what he thought was the most life enhancing thing a person could do.
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