QUARANTINE MUST: Celebrate how far you’ve come.

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These days, a lot of things are going wrong for a lot of people. I know I can definitely identify with this, as I face issues surrounding employment, housing, and visa status, among other things. So naturally, a lot of my energy and focus has been in trying to sort out how I’m going to navigate all of these unknowns in the near future.

But in one of the silent moments where my mind wasn’t thinking about eight things at once, a beautiful thought dawned on me:

I may not have any clue where I’m going from here, but damn, look how far I’ve come.

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Don’t focus on your goals.

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Don’t focus on your goals.

In the proper spirit of a new year (and new decade!), many of us are setting goals to orientate ourselves with the future self that we aspire to be.

I personally love this; I think that, no matter what time of the year it is, creating goals to improve ourselves should be something we all take the time to do.

However, what I’d like to advocate for is that after we create that goal, rather than continually revisiting it, we should try to not focus on the goal itself.

Seems counter-intuitive? Let me break it down.

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