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Stop Thinking About What’s Next and Start Participating in the World Around You
We are often so focused on what’s next — getting a promotion, a new house, a bigger car.
After one achievement, we’re already thinking about the next one.
Our life becomes one big accumulation of achievements, in our relentless drive to succeed.
But the problem with that is, while we are racking up these ‘wins’, we aren’t really participating in the world around us.
When we are always thinking about what’s next — and tangible signs of success — we are not engaging in the life that we are living right now.
We only have so much time on this earth, and there is no way of knowing exactly how much time we have.
The reality is that each moment, week, and year of your life is precious. And finite.
If you are living today thinking about what you can achieve tomorrow, your daily life will never be fulfilling.
Setting goals and driving toward them is good, but not when it comes at the expense of enjoying the life that you have right now.
We need to think more about making today’s life as great as possible, instead of charging as fast as possible into tomorrow. You don’t know how many tomorrows you’ll have.
