So I'm going to riff a little bit in today's micro show.

I've been thinking there's the world out there, right, is one that's constantly nudging us towards the next big thing.

It's so easy to get caught up in this web of dreams that we tell ourselves we'll chase someday.

But then you juxtapose that with the idea that

someday never comes, right? Not in the sense of procrastination or the failure to achieve our dreams,

but mostly in the realization that perhaps, this is crazy for me to say this, I realize,

but some dreams are just meant to remain dreams, right? And maybe those dreams are in a different state

that are in a percolating state such that it's not yet time to take action on them. This is the

trap of perpetual aspiration. Now, this is not about giving up on aspirations or not about settling

for any less than you deserve.

But this is about, I don't want to dare call this profound, but it's about the understanding

and acceptance that maybe we're not always meant to be pursuing every single dream that we

conjure up, right?

That can actually leave us with a feeling of less than

and a gap at tune where we are, where we want to be and it can, you know, those voices of self-judgment

can come in, that maybe it's the fact that the real issue isn't that we're not achieving those

dreams, it's that we're actually beating ourselves up for the process of not jumping onto

them. It's sort of like a specter in the back of not jumping onto them.

It's sort of like a specter in the back of our minds haunting us.

All these what ifs, all these could be, you know, whether you're wishing to be 25 pounds

lighter or dreaming of being, you know, some dramatic career transformation that we find

difficult to commit to. We attempt, we falter,

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