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How to Go from Chasing Goals to Setting a Course — and Starting
The only reason to set your sights on a destination is to start somewhere, and start now
In Richard Linklater’s film Boyhood, a poignant moment comes as the story draws to a close: three-times divorced Olivia lifts her head from her work and says to Mason, her now-grown son: “I just thought there’d be more.”
More, presumably being more to one’s career, to one’s relationships and more presumably to one’s life.
I’ve pondered this thought more than a few times over the years, wondering if ‘more’ is out there, and if I have yet to reach some undefined higher level of accomplishment, happiness or fulfillment beyond my current one. If there is, it’s not clear at all what will it take for me to reach it.
Now on the cusp of sixty, and balancing renovating an old log cabin with a small consulting practice, I travel when I can, and split my time between two addresses and the several communities, virtual and IRL, that sustain me. Yet fulfillment in any consistent way, as I imagine it, seems as elusive as a pot of gold at the rainbow’s end.
