Chapter 19 Decisions about the future

feel really connected when it talks about the conflict between a present self and a future self. how true that can be. it's never a war between self and others but the war with different self,with ur ego.

another sentence i'd like to share is: the simplest way of trying to shape our goals is to behave as if we already had them. but how difficult it can be!and when you are able to do that, it feels great. i know that coz i've been there.

another thing i got from this chapter is the goals you are making should not be a conventional so called GOOD goals.as the author said,"it is not very helpful for planning our personal lives, because they do not provide REASONS OR EVIDENCE for choosing these personal goals instead of many other possibilities we could choose." so true...after all,it's your own life and no one really knows you better than yourself.

just suddenly a sentence i saw yesterday come up into my mind which i didn't get it at the first glance but then understand it.

it's a quote from the movie"the bucket list",

"I believe that you measure yourself by the people that measure themselves by you."
a lot of people do that for their entire lives, how pathetic it is.