Aug 26, 2026 · 32 min · 9 segments
In this episode, Dr. Robyne explores the tension between everything and enough, and what happens when our drive to achieve, grow, and do more turns into a perpetual game of chase. Drawing on a journal…
Now, I was reflecting and reading a journal entry that I wrote last year when I was mapping out my New Year's goals.
who are perhaps shuttling little ones back to school, or perhaps in education, you are back in the classroom as an educator, or maybe you're in a similar boat as me, and you are about to say and send off your littlest to post-secondary, which means all three of these kiddos are now in university.
I do prefer systems, but nevertheless, I always ensure that each quarter I have something that holds me steady.
Now, sometimes it could be more of an anchor, a characteristic or a trait that I'm trying to improve, or perhaps it's a lighthouse somewhere I am heading towards something I want to achieve.
Nevertheless, I sat down this like today and I was looking at what did I think or what was I thinking about this time last year? Now, one of the reasons I love to do this exercise isn't so much that it keeps me on track or it keeps me accountable.
Part of it is love, loves that it's like almost like this kind of a repository of like, what was I thinking back then? So I like to revisit it from the perspective, not to say, okay, did I accomplish the big thing? I love that it's this running record of what I was thinking about this time last year.
And that sentence that I shared right at the episode, at the beginning of this episode was that maybe enough isn't where ambition ends, Robin.
Now, you might be curious, okay, what is that even about? At the time, I noticed in many different life areas, there was this sense of like Like I was trying to accomplish the next thing.
I was working towards the next thing, both personally and professionally.
And what dawned on me was that I had done a lot of work before on the notion of hedonic adaptation, which is when we achieve the thing, But it doesn't feel very good or doesn't change us the way we thought it would because it becomes the new normal or what is expected of us or what we're able to comfortably achieve, sustain and maintain.
Now, I was reflecting and reading a journal entry that I wrote last year when I was mapping out my New Year's goals.
who are perhaps shuttling little ones back to school, or perhaps in education, you are back in the classroom as an educator, or maybe you're in a similar boat as me, and you are about to say and send off your littlest to post-secondary, which means all three of these kiddos are now in university.
I do prefer systems, but nevertheless, I always ensure that each quarter I have something that holds me steady.
Now, sometimes it could be more of an anchor, a characteristic or a trait that I'm trying to improve, or perhaps it's a lighthouse somewhere I am heading towards something I want to achieve.
Nevertheless, I sat down this like today and I was looking at what did I think or what was I thinking about this time last year? Now, one of the reasons I love to do this exercise isn't so much that it keeps me on track or it keeps me accountable.
Part of it is love, loves that it's like almost like this kind of a repository of like, what was I thinking back then? So I like to revisit it from the perspective, not to say, okay, did I accomplish the big thing? I love that it's this running record of what I was thinking about this time last year.
And that sentence that I shared right at the episode, at the beginning of this episode was that maybe enough isn't where ambition ends, Robin.
Now, you might be curious, okay, what is that even about? At the time, I noticed in many different life areas, there was this sense of like Like I was trying to accomplish the next thing.
I was working towards the next thing, both personally and professionally.
And what dawned on me was that I had done a lot of work before on the notion of hedonic adaptation, which is when we achieve the thing, But it doesn't feel very good or doesn't change us the way we thought it would because it becomes the new normal or what is expected of us or what we're able to comfortably achieve, sustain and maintain.
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