MILLIONAIRE SUCCESS HABITS
perfect spouse—perfection in all aspects of ourselves. You know exactly what I’m talking about. When you’re hitting the gym and looking good, you stop and realize you’re not spending enough time with your wife or husband and you criticize yourself for neglecting this per- son you love. Or your relationship is great in so many areas but you hate your job or you’re not making enough money and you give yourself a hard time about this failing. Or you’re making all the money in the world, but you’re not the parent you always wished you could be and you beat yourself up over it. And why is this? We all have major accomplishments in our lives. But when is the last time you celebrated one of them? When’s the last time you did something that was a goal of yours and you stopped and let it sink in, congratulating yourself? When was the last time you said, “I’m going to do something in the next ninety days!” and you did it and you rewarded yourself? I bet you haven’t done these things in a very long time. In our culture and society, when we complete our goals, we immediately look to the next thing that we haven’t ac- complished. Maybe you got a promotion or started your own business in the last year. You should be celebrating, but in- stead you respond to this achievement by saying, “Yeah, but I neglected my kids. I need to work on my relationship with my kids more.” Then you get a relationship going with your kids, and you look down and notice you’re a bit overweight and you say, “Yeah, I’m closer with my kids, but look at my gut.” We start creating this imaginary perfect person in our minds, and we’re always falling short of it—it immediately puts us in the gap. It’s like we are all stuck chasing the sunset. No matter how fast you go west, you can never catch the sun- set. The same holds true with trying to reach this imaginary perfect person state. We are chasing an impossible task and setting ourselves up for disappointment and depression.
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