5 Important Steps To Not Sacrifice Happiness In The Sprint To Success

Blaming work for unhappiness is too easy and ineffective.

According to Gallups 2022 State of the Global Workplace report, sixty percent of people reported being emotionally detached and 19% as miserable at work.

Sure a toxic work culture, a shitty manager, and a grueling commute will check a few marks in the unhappiness department, but unhappiness is caused by something different.

When I was younger, I thought being successful and making money would make me happy.

I’d set ambitious goals, achieve them, and move to chase the next carrot. What I realized was I never officially arrived. None of it ever made me happy.

All it did in my pursuit of happiness was pull me further away from it.

What is unhappiness?

We all suffer from The Arrival Fallacy, or the Happily Ever After Fallacy when we believe that we will be happy when something happens.