A goal that is too far away in time is a false goal. The goal has to be extremely immediate. By having a false goal, you give yourself the luxury of not doing the right thing right now. By placing your goal five years into the future, you have given yourself the freedom— the false freedom— to do any random stuff right now.
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Questioner: Sir, usually when we want to achieve something or we want to become a better person, we usually push boundaries. And when we push boundaries, we encounter pain. So, what happens usually is that every day, when I am trying to push my boundaries in any field, for example, the pain starts accumulating over time. And slowly, by the end of the week or the month, it just implodes. So, what is your suggestion for this?
Acharya Prashant: You see, if the goal is worthy, then the worthiness of the goal is itself the antidote for the pain. Pain cannot accumulate if the goal has been right. Please understand this. Obviously, when you are pushing ego boundaries, when you are pushing the limits of patterns, then pain is inevitable, right? But that pain will be lesser and dissolved by the fruit of your endeavour if the endeavour has been in the right direction. It is basic; please understand. If the goal is not worthy enough, then why go through the pain? The very fact that you are enduring pain for the sake of a goal implies that the goal must be bigger than the...?
Questioner: Pain.
