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the 3-step plan to figuring out what you want

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This is Part II of my essay series about how I figured out what I wanted out of life. Part I is now the highest rated essay we have ever had. If you missed it, click here. Yesterday I told you How I Spent A Year Being ‘Strategically Broke’. The essay talked about how my life changed when I decided “the ordinary life isn’t for me”. Those first few years were rough. My life chart basically looked like this: Everyone focuses on the big ‘upswing’ of the chart. But the million dollar question is - how do you survive the 10 years of flat line progress? Unless you’re cousins with David Goggins, you probably won’t have the willpower to go through 10-12 years straight of nothing but failures. The answer is simple: they don’t. The people that make it through the ‘decade of suck’ are the ones who enjoy the game. They don’t play to win, they play to play. That’s why they keep going, even when they see all their friends getting promotions and buying houses with nice backyards in Connecticut. Even w

the 3-step plan to figuring out what you want August 31, 2024 the 3-step plan to figuring out what you want This is Part II of my essay series about how I figured out what I wanted out of life. Part I is now the highest rated essay we have ever had. If you missed it, click here . Yesterday I told you How I Spent A Year Being ‘Strategically Broke’. The essay talked about how my life changed when I decided “the ordinary life isn’t for me”. Those first few years were rough. My life chart basically looked like this: Everyone focuses on the big ‘upswing’ of the chart. But the million dollar questio

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