This week (after months of working on it) I finally
submitted my tax return. This is a huge achievement and something that felt
very satisfying. Normally of course this wouldn’t be the case. However with
being able to do less your goals become less too. The curious thing is that the
sense of achievement remains the same. On one hand, this seems quite logical;
whilst the task is smaller the difficulty is greater and so the same amount of
work needs to be done – it makes sense. But when you look into this further it
has a strange implication; the satisfaction gained from accomplishing something
is dependent upon how difficult it is to achieve. Whilst I seem bound by these
rules, I don’t understand why. It’s incredibly difficult to balance three balls
on your nose, yet relatively simple to help out at a soup kitchen once a week –
surely I should gain more satisfaction from the later than the former, and yet
in truth, would I? Honestly I don’t know. The only conclusion I can draw is
that subconsciously I’ve been looking at achievement all wrong and so from now
on I’ll try to stop looking at how hard what I do is to achieve and look at how
much what I do achieves instead.
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