Work

By Pat Morley

How can a man get exactly what he wants and not be happy?

Every man seeks the same ultimate thing. He wants to experience joy. For many men, joy comes from reaching challenging goals, such as success at work.

"Success sickness" is the intangible pain of not achieving goals that should have never been set, or achieving them only to find they really didn't matter.

The greatest problem we see is not that men are failing to achieve their goals. They are achieving them. The problem is they are the wrong goals. Many men get what they want only to find it doesn't matter. In fact, we could say failure means to succeed in a way that doesn't really matter.