When we struggle with insomnia, it’s easy to focus solely on goals like “sleeping better” or “waking up refreshed.”

While having sleep-related goals is understandable, tying your sense of fulfillment entirely to whether or not you achieve them can backfire.

Goals, after all, are checkpoints.

They can be missed, delayed, or sometimes reached without bringing the lasting happiness you imagined.

Once you accomplish a goal, you may quickly return to your baseline level of satisfaction, a phenomenon known as hedonic adaptation.

This keeps you on a treadmill, always seeking the next thing to make you happy.

Values, on the other hand, offer a different path.

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