Life can feel like a hamster wheel; you’re constantly running towards the next goal or achievement, and rarely looking back. What’s worse, we become so focused on ticking off our ‘must-achieve’ lists that we rarely get to enjoy reaching them.
Tal Ben-Shahar, a psychology expert, coined the term ‘arrival fallacy’, describing our often misplaced belief that reaching a certain goal will finally make us happy. ‘Arrival fallacy is the illusion that once we make it, once we attain our goal or reach our destination, we will reach lasting happiness,’ he says.
As Elizabeth Walker, Cognitive Behavioural Coach, explains ‘Once you achieve the
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