As Confucius said, when it's obvious that the goal cannot be reached,

don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

That may be the single best piece of advice you're ever going to get.

Write that down, burn it into your flesh, tattoo it on your soul.

Do whatever you need to do to remember that once you set a goal,

once you've decided in your life,

there is something that you're going to make come true.

Don't let anything stop you from reaching that.

But the reality is, as you go, things are going to get in your way.

There will be an inevitable slew of obstacles coming at you.

But when it gets so hard that you realize that the path that you're on

is simply not going to take you where you want to go, rather than give up on what

it was you said you were going to do.

Find a different path.

And in that, when you really make that the cornerstone of your

identity that you refuse to bend or be broken by obstacles, by challenges,

but instead you rise to those challenges.

You go over, under through them, you do whatever you have to.

You devise any plan to find a way through.

Then your life will change once that becomes your reaction to not change that

thing that meant so much to you that you dedicated your life to making it come

true that you don't change that.

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