By Jonathan Mead
Many of us have a bad habit of judging ourselves based on our ideal self that hasn’t actualized. We have big goals and aspirations, and we want better for ourselves. We see where we want to go, and we see… we’re not there yet.
Our expectation is that we should be there. In fact, we should have gotten there a long time ago.
And of course, once we do reach the ideal, there’s always a greater vision that replaces it. We always want more, we always strive to be better. If we reach our goal of earning $5,000 a month, it’s easy to think that we need to replace it with a bigger goal of $10,000 or $15,000.
Because of this, we get caught in a closed loop of disappointment in ourselves. We’re always “not there yet.”
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