If you have more than three priorities, you don’t have any. - Benjamin P. Hardy

This brings up a highly nuanced and crucial distinction: you can want something and be 100% committed to that thing without needing it. This is the counterintuitive reality: by no longer needing what you want, you are actually far more enabled to get it.

The reason the hedonic treadmill exists is because people aren’t taught how to be happy.

We are kept from our goals not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.