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Your ‘Milestone Mindset’ Will Crush Your Future Self
Here’s how you can avoid that
Most of our life, most of our life, is spent chasing the big things. It’s what I call the milestone mindset. It’s the mindset that solely focuses on the milestone after milestone.
That promotion, the nice car and then the even nicer car, the money, the partner of our dreams, the house of our dreams and then the ‘bigger dream’ house. Our life can feel like we are living to get to the next thing, as if happiness is achieved once we have ticked off everything on our to-do list.
But most of life isn’t milestones, most of our life is a normal Wednesday morning.
Most of our life is actually washing the dishes.
Let me explain.
Life in a Nutshell
Life is a funny thing. We’re here for a short time, if you’re lucky enough to have all your basic survival needs met, shelter, water, food, you start to think of the bigger things. Huge questions like “why are we here?” and “what am I meant to do with my life?” Because they are so huge, they can overwhelm us.
You can, if you’re not careful fall into a rabbit hole. As if your sole purpose is to discover your purpose. It’s good to question life, to have thoughts about the bigger…
