The Goalpost Problem: Are You In It?

A 2-minute diagnostic from The ENOUGH Letter

Answer honestly. Nobody’s keeping score but you.

• You achieved something you genuinely wanted, and the satisfaction faded within days, sometimes hours

• You’ve caught yourself planning the next thing before you finished celebrating the current one. Or you skipped celebrating entirely.

• An open hour feels like a problem to solve, not space to exist in.

• You’ve said “once I get through this, I’ll slow down” and meant it (but still didn’t slow down)

• You can’t remember the last time you did something for no reason other than you wanted to. No optimization. Just because.

• Someone asked you what you do for fun, and you had to think about it.

• You’ve hit a milestone that other people would call a win and felt the question “Is this it?” before you could stop it.

• Part of you suspects that even if you got everything on your current list, you’d just make a new list.

Add up your yes answers. Your score means something specific, and it’s probably not what you’d guess.

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