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# The temporary relief of a goal
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/the-temporary-relief-of-a-goal/
- Published: 2026-11-11T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-11T06:59:59.000Z
- Description: Understanding the good feelings that come from attaining goals changes them forever 🎯
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Goals, Video, Psychology, Thought realisation, Neuroscience, MECHANICS

Have you ever chased a goal, felt really good about attaining it, and then felt a bit deflated… then a bit restless… and then a bit eager to start towards the next one?

It's pretty common. It's like getting little dopamine hits of achievement, one after the other. A bit like a hamster on a wheel, running and running and running… but for what?

The good news is, there's another way. Nothing that involves striving harder, or finding a strategy to win… instead quitting the game entirely!

Seeing deeply how our experience of life—and of goals—is created, puts an entirely different spin on them.

As I discuss in this short video clip:

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Once we see how goal attainment *really* works, and what it is that gives us that good feeling we seek, it shifts the goalposts entirely!

💟

Giles

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