If you‘ve ever gone through any sales training, you‘ll most likely be aware of the importance of setting goals and visualising yourself achieving them. Heck, I‘ve even taught others to do the same before!
We‘re taught to extrapolate the present moment because we were told that success was somewhere we “arrive“, so we are constantly trying to take a snapshot of our life and see if we are successful yet.
Because we‘re wired to believe that success is somewhere we get to – when goals are accomplished, and things are completed – we‘re constantly measuring our present moments by how “finished” they are and how good the story sounds.
Some of us who managed to “reach” will undoubtedly ask, “Is this all there is?” because we forget that everything is transitory, and no single instance can summarise the whole.
There is nowhere to “arrive” to. The only thing we‘re rushing toward is death.
Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.
This post was inspired by the book “101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think.”
