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Ep 013: Are You Living Someone Else’s Idea of a “Good Life”?

 

Ep 013: Are You Living Someone Else’s Idea of a “Good Life”?

On the difference between a good life, and your good life

This one’s for the women who did everything “right” – built the career, the home, the family – and are still standing in the middle of it wondering why it doesn’t feel the way they thought it would. Melissa unpacks the arrival fallacy (the research-backed reason achieving your goals rarely delivers the lasting satisfaction you expected), why some goals feel hollow even when you nail them, why changing direction can feel like admitting failure even when it isn’t, and the one question worth sitting with before deciding anything needs to change.

In This Episode:

  • Whose script are you actually living – parents’, career’s, or your feed’s?
  • The arrival fallacy: why reaching the goal rarely feels the way you expected
  • Self-concordance: why some achievements satisfy you and others fall flat, even when you nail them
  • Identity fusion: why letting go of a goal can feel like losing yourself
  • The sunk cost trap – and why twenty good years doesn’t obligate you to the next twenty
  • The Autopilot Audit: one question to check whether you’re still choosing your own life

Your Prime Power Move:

If you were starting today, knowing everything you know now – would you still choose this?

Not a call to blow anything up. Just an honest check-in on whether you’re still the one choosing your life, or running it on autopilot.

Your Next Step:

Not sure if you’re operating on low energy or in full-blown survival mode? Take Melissa’s free Thriving, Striving or Surviving Quiz – it takes two minutes and shows you exactly where your energy is leaking. Take the quiz here.

Coming Up Next:

Ep 014 – Stuck on Repeat? The Fix Isn’t a New Life, It’s a New Read on This One.

Same house, same job, same family … Groundhog Day! Next week: why that’s an attention problem, not a life problem, and the shift that gets you unstuck.

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DISCLAIMER: The Hello Prime Life podcast is created for informational, educational and entertainment purposes only. I love sharing tools, strategies and unvarnished realities from my own experience and coaching work – but I’m your host, not a licensed therapist or doctor. Nothing here is a substitute for professional, individualised advice.

 

 

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