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Marginal Gains's avatar

I think Ralph Waldo Emerson sums it up nicely:

It’s not the Destination; It’s the journey.

When we reach our destination or goals, we often start looking for the next thing immediately, as the journey is more fun than the destination.

“The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination” - Dan Millman

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Suzanne Heyn's avatar

Love this and it’s something I think about a lot. So often people achieve a goal at the expense of something else that really matters, like their family or health, and find that the cost outweighed the benefit. I think it’s important to have balanced goals, that it goals in multiple areas of life, to ensure desire and effort is appropriately balanced. I also think it’s important for goals to align with core values, and most of all, the core of who you are and how you are meant to express yourself. I think we all have a seed of potential inside of us and our job is to cultivate that seed, which has its own purpose and desires. The trouble is too often we prioritize the desire for certain outcomes over the desire for an authentic pathway, and if we’re not traveling the authentic path, we won’t find happiness. It’s cliche but life really is all about the journey and I always have to remind myself that results are more an accumulation of consistent actions rather than something to strive for in themselves.

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