Your purpose is what drives you – not just what you’re driven towards.
Sharing your goal, particularly with someone you perceive as higher up, motivates you to achieve it.
The statistics never boost anybody’s hopes, but your parent is obsessed with them. She knows all of the statistics about the likelihood that you’ll ever actually make money at this, that that book will ever get published, that your business will ever actually take off, and things like that. She knows all the numbers. And she recites them to you. That’s what she did to herself—that’s why she gave up on her dreams. The numbers are not encouraging. Don’t look at them.
You want to get aggressive about saving. You’d like to put a nice down payment on a home soon and retire by 60, comfortably. So you decide to be totally stingy, and only spend money on the essentials—gas, rent, health insurance, car insurance, and groceries.
Are you running toward or walking away from your goals?