We all know that goals are transient. They might bring us some short-term pleasure but the periods between the goals, the goals we actually get that is, are often peppered with consistent feelings of lack, frustration and disappointment.
Despite knowing this, we still live lives where we’re mostly striving for, and only occasionally arriving at, a state of fulfillment. It’s a hamster wheel that’s kept billions of us busy through countless lifetimes.
In this episode, Thom explains that we do this because we’ve got our achievement process backwards. He exposes the ‘fulfillment fallacy’ and gives us a practical method whereby fulfillment becomes an input into the process, rather than being a result of the process.
So if you’re ready to get off the hamster wheel, this episode is just what you need.
Episode Highlights:
[00:40] Did I Make a Difference?
[03:02] How Do You Get What (You Think) You Want?
[04:49] Creativity and Action
[06:51] Achievement… Then What?
[08:12] What is the Source of Thought?
[09:47] Thought Has Energy
[11:22] Thought Has Measurable Energy
[12:55] Thought Has Intelligence
[14:24] Consciousness Has Thought
[16:20] The Purpose of Thinking
[18:02] Self-Generating Charm Through Vedic Meditation
[19:36] Nothing Gets Better Than This
[21:06] Being - Complete Fulfillment
[22:38] AKA Samadhi
[24:39] How Desperate Are You?
[26:00] The Fulfillment Fallacy
[27:41] Collateral Damage
[29:02] What Needs to be Done?
[30:36] Let It Go
[31:55] An Evolutionary Agenda
[33:46] Exporting Fulfillment
[35:55] The Need of the Time
[38:36] Stirring the Warm Bath
[40:00] You Won’t Get Fulfillment From That
[41:41] Scaling New Heights
[42:56] Baseline Happiness First
[44:12] Stop Seeking It Where It is Not
[46:21] One Percent
[47:52] An Ingenious Thing
[49:36] Living the Outcome While Engaged in the Process
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