In more or less degree, depending on the person, we tend to focus our efforts toward the fulfillment of our desires or achieving our goals.

So, you have specific needs you want to fulfill, let´s use the Maslows´s Hierachy of Needs Pyramid as a baseline:

So your actions are prioritized or improvised, consciously or subconsciously, toward getting the fulfillment of those needs.

Depending on the complexity and the type of the need you want to fulfill, it can be immediate, take hours, months, years, a lifetime, or several lifetimes (legacy).

Are the needs and desires you're fulfilling, the ones that your inner self really wants?

Or is the focus mostly on a carpe diem lifestyle where you aim to be disconnected from your reality through bad habits?

Please don't misunderstand my words, or see this article as judgmental toward bad habits or that rest and chill time we all need, I just want to leave on the air the idea that if you're not satisfied with the results you're getting in your life, maybe it's time to make a self-reflection, where you stop everything, and ask yourself seriously:

Do you just keep running to nowhere, in escape mode, to concatenate the fulfillment of your senses and desires throughout your entire life, neglecting any improvement in your physical, intellectual and spiritual capabilities, just to keep your mind satisfied by chasing comfort and cheap dopamine?

For example, your car is not going to repair itself by leaving it at the workshop. A mechanic must take charge and start finding and executing solutions.

The problem is that in your life, you can't pay anybody else to solve your inner problems.

If you want to change your outcomes and start finding solutions, you must lead and start to think of a way to solve your problems, if you want to make your life worthwhile.

Maybe it´s time to think about how much time and resources you are investing in just fulfilling your senses, and not solving your real problems?