Focus on Progress to Create Lifetime Change
The point of a goal is not to create a momentary-change, the point of a goal is to create and sustain a lifetime-change.
The point is not “to make it” or “arrive” at an outcome, the point is to progress throughout. We don’t grow and expand the moment we reach the result, we grow and expand in the process of working toward the result we want.
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