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What is the kind of life you want to lead? This is a question I have asked myself. And in this context, I liked this article.

Very often in the pursuit of our career, we forget what we want to do. Or we simply cant given the demands of a career. And what we want to do might be as simple as spend more time with children, parents. It might be getting better in an art or craft. It might be following a passion. It could be anything.

He suggests a few things that resonated with me: Read books, Become a learning machine, Start a side business (not the multi level marketing kind please).

But primarily, stop chasing vanity goals (material) and chase goals of self improvement (getting better at some thing - maybe one thing, maybe two things)

I couldnt express it better than him, so here is the excerpt that resonated with me:

B+ is finding something to aim for and going all-in on it for as long as you can. It’s not about the outcomes. Success doesn’t make you happy. Vanity goals make you happy for a very short time and you get used to them. But you can play the ‘pretty damn good’ game until you die.
Imagine this type of life.
You’re not a millionaire, but you do something you really enjoy. Not even passionately in love with, just enjoy. Every day, you get a little bit better.
Some days, you have breakthrough epiphanies that make you feel euphoric and during those epiphanies, you think back to when you first got started, how hard it was back then, and how it all seems so easy now. You find new challenges that make you feel like a beginner, you level up the skill, and you go through the process all over again.
Do this throughout a lifetime and you can look back proudly, not on what you have or own, but what you’ve done.
With the freedom your skills provided you, you also got to have some amazing experiences — some trips you wouldn’t have been able to afford otherwise, more free time and flexibility to enjoy your spouse and children, connecting with a wide network of like-minded people and building friendships from your passion.
Imagine that type of life.

I am sold, though to be fair, this was my approach all along. I am working on a few skills and a few things at the moment. I have a few passions that I work on. This was a timely read...

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