Are You Chasing Intrinsic or Extrinsic Goals?

Even a hundred dollar bill that’s been stepped on and crumpled and maybe even used as drug money is still worth….$100.  What it’s been through doesn’t determine its value. 

We tend to carry all our past with us, and measure ourselves with the weight of it tipping the scales negative. 

I have a different take.

"What if I treated myself the way I treat all those I love in my life.”  – Mark J. Silverman

Today on Mastering Midlife:

The first time I thought to “put myself on the list,” with all those I love Uncomfortable truth: we are as precious and lovable as our kids and dogs. Do you value yourself by how hard you work, the money you make, how thin you are? Are you striving for the expensive car, the job title, to go viral? Or are you creating impact, relationship and connection? It’s not wrong to pursue extrinsic goals, the challenge is when we make them mean more than they do.

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