Want To Be Miserable?

If you want to be miserable, get yourself a future. – Byron Katie

There’s a difference between dreaming, goal-setting and planning for the future and being stuck there.*

Which are you doing?

How’s it going?

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* Nothing happens in the future, only in the Now.

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