Getting By vs. Moving Forward

Are you (just) getting by, doing what you need to do, or are you moving forward?

Has your life been reduced to a series of tasks, appointments and ‘have-tos,’ or are you clear about what you want and how to accomplish your goals?

What’s life for?

Is it to just get by, or to do what you’re really here for?

I believe it’s the latter.

What’s more, when you get your sh!t together and eliminate the “‘have-tos’ and tolerations and petty (dis)stresses, you’ll bring joy to some of the stuff that you previously had to do.

But until you get that clarity, until you tell yourself the truth about how – at least some of – what you’re doing isn’t what you really want to be doing, you’re going to waste your life, and you’re going to suffer.

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