We must strip ourselves of the illusion that our next big goal will change our life entirely. It won’t. Achieving big goals almost never has the immediate life-changing impact that we expect. So stop expecting.
We even tend to look back on the good that we’ve done and attribute way too much credit to this or that thing for entirely changing our life.
Real growth and change come in the pursuit of the big goal. There are a thousand things that we need to do in pursuit of our goals and those things are what set change in motion in our life.
The pursuit of the goal should be the goal itself. The goal at the end is just a nice cherry to enjoy at the end before the process begins again.
The doing is often much more important than the outcome. Don’t stress about achieving that goal, just work day after day and the progress will follow slowly, consistently, and joyfully.