This is when good results leave you feeling disappointed
What is disillusionment?
Oxford languages on Google describes disillusionment as, “a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.” Meaning, you’re not happy because you got 1% out of the 100% objective you wanted.
Reasons why you’re easily disappointed with outcomes you must be proud of
Have you ever gone from pure joy to a depressed state even though the result you achieved is a good one? Feeling like what you’ve achieved isn’t what you expected in your mind so it’s a failure nonetheless. Here’s a reason why you shouldn’t feel disappointed when you’re doing things right. Being overly eager, rushing to achieve everything at once will leave you demoralized when the pace, and progress is slow and steady. You’re human. You want to succeed and be done with it but real success doesn’t end. It takes time so you must acknowledge all wins as you pursue your goals.
How to deal with emotional disillusionment
The importance of acknowledging all wins in your life is big. Because when you belittle your achievements you manifest an attitude which limits your drive to pursue all of your goals wholeheartedly. For example, disillusionment occurs when you want to be driving now, but you belittle acquiring your learners license today. Instead of acknowledging what a learners license will do for your life. You fail to understand the importance of what you’ve achieved when you pass your learners permit. Which is bigger than getting the actual drivers license. In this case, the 1% is the actual drivers license, and the 100% is the most important learners license.
Why it’s important to have real expectations
FYI. Passing your learners permit is a big achievement. You must acknowledge all wins in your life. Your learners is very important. Why? Every win plays a role in your growth and development. Without the learners license you cannot practice how to drive. You cannot be given the opportunity to learn how to drive. You cannot register and find an instructor. You cannot legally move forward.
So failure to see wins for what they are will hurt your motivation and drive on other endeavors. You end up losing hope in pursuing and achieving your goals because everything requires hard work. And yet without building blocks you cannot build anything. All wins are victories so use them as building blocks. If you can succeed with the small things it leads to bigger things in the future. You build going up and you do it one win at a time.
Acknowledge all your victories. Use them in times when you feel demoralized. Those wins no matter how small are monumental when days are tough and things aren’t going your way. You use them to boost your energy. You use them to confirm that hard work paid off before and it can happen today too. It takes time to achieve most of your targeted goals so stocking up on victories allows you to cash them in — emotionally — every step of the way.
Conclusion
A wise person realizes when he or she will need a boost. So they store up happiness in their hearts for recurring events which bring your soul down. You need to pile up victories so that you can use them when people or outcomes try to bring you down. All hard work brings a profit. And the most valuable of them are small victories you pile up by doing tasks which benefit your life.
And that’s today’s message, How to deal with emotional disillusionment. I hope you learned something today. Please comment below. I’d like to know how listening to this message has helped you.
