Dr. Paul Conti

Of something so that you can bring real change.

We're kind of out at the end of the branches trying to snip things and make things look a little bit better instead of saying, hey, if we go down, if we invest ourselves in going down to the roots, now maybe everything is better and we don't have to be out at the branches now for years upon years trying to stave off symptoms of the deeper problem.

Right, right.

This is where, you know, I want to anchor again to how it can be fun to play detective with ourselves, right?

And it can be fun to do it with someone else that we're trying to help.

So very often the link between what we're driving at and what we're doing has been lost along the way, right?

So someone who...

doesn't feel satisfied about life.

They don't feel good about their life and they keep wanting to earn more money and they'll feel better about themselves.

This is not uncommon in the society around us.

So they're trying to earn more money because it's linked to feeling good about themselves.

But is that really the way the person is going to feel good about themselves?

At some point society tells us, well, you should feel better about yourself if you're earning more money.

We say, okay, let me attach, we attach something to that.

Now we think we should feel better about ourselves.

So the person then is working and earning more and not feeling better about themselves and wondering like, what's wrong with me?

What am I doing wrong?

If we go and we stop and we look at that, we can say, okay, let's take a look at that.

It's okay to be striving occupationally.

It's okay to want to earn more.