And then all of a sudden I realized that I had never defined what I wanted on my own terms.

And that started to get me thinking.

It's like how many of our goals that we're working towards are actually defined by us

from our lived experience, like things that we know add value

to our lives, things that we know make us curious and engage us.

And for me me the answer was not much you know like I had inherited my goals from if you you will the media from my culture and in some cases sure that's fine but you know it's like

You know get a million dollars or even worse like when you're rich you will be happy right's like, okay, let's play that out for a second.

How do you define rich?

What amount of money is that?

What freedom does it buy you? Exactly. And when you start thinking about things that way

they start seeming kind of impossible, right? I think the wealthiest people I know worry about money more than anyone else that I know.

So like when does that stop, you know, it's like when you buy a house, okay cool, now I have a house.

I need a bigger house or this house has problems or I don't want to live here anymore.

You know, like these kind of goals are, I don't know, we have these cookie cutter ideas of

what happiness is and I found that that was very dangerous because we spend so much time working

towards these goals just to find them to be empty.

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