108. Do what you can do today
Sometimes people e-mail me to see if they can work with me for a year to have me be a coach and partner to their big dream that they have committed to just now. I’m not against dreaming big, but a problem emerges when this big goal is all you’ve got and there’s no way you can have a great day because as you live through your day, and you’ve made so little progress toward the big dream, it feels like a bad day. Or it feels like a hopeless ambition, and the goal ends up actually hurting your self-esteem. It ends up reminding you, every time you look at it, of how far away you are from where you want to be.
Then the goal starts to reinforce the idea that you’re not enough, or you’re not there yet, or you haven’t arrived. ...
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