Every day I will myself into being successful

It starts with defining success on your own terms.

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For me personally, that translates into buying an acreage before I’m 35 with my husband (I want alpacas for fibre and to be able to grow the majority of my own food… I also want a mini pig and we can’t legally have one within city limits as they’re considered livestock).

It also includes building an income that does not require me leaving the house if I don’t feel like it, and ideally let’s me have some flexibility with the hours I work. See above dream of alpacas.

While this dream may be “my” dream, this dream is not unique.

For the most part, everything you want to do have been achieved by someone else already. Somewhere in the world, there is another fabulous woman with a happy little farm surrounded by alpacas and I’m probably already stalking her on Instagram.

There are 2 basic ways I could handle this fact.

I could be jealous, I could think she has family money, or got lucky, or married rich, or has some magical quality that I’m missing.

Or alternatively I can wake up every day and remind myself “there is no reason you cannot be one of those people”.