“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
You’ve arrived – or so you think!
Our eldest son was about three. One day, as we were taking a reluctant walk on a miserable day in January, I announced with false enthusiasm, “Yeah! We’re there.” “Where’s there?” asked our 3 year old. And then, with far more insight than his father….. “Looks like nowhere to me.”
When will you have arrived? What does success look like or mean for you? Is arrival the goal or is it the journey?
A financial planner friend told me recently that the biggest financial mistake she sees people make is that once they reach some financial goal that they have set for themselves, rather than being satisfied and enjoying that particular lifestyle, they then want more. It’s the classic mistake of get a better paying job, buy a bigger car, bigger house, take more expensive vacations.
Early in my career I had a very strong sense of meeting with a client high up in an office building overlooking a large expanse of water. A couple of years later I found myself in a meeting with the Regional President of a client in his Buenos Aires office overlooking the Rio de la Plata. It was uncanny. Ever since, I have used visualisation to help me focus on what I am looking to achieve.
Imagining what your destination might look like is an excellent first step towards knowing when you’ve arrived.
