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You’d think that with solid goals and the steps to reach them, going after what you want and getting there would be easy. Assuming all the steps are reachable, of course.

So why is it so hard to get our desires in line with our goals? Assuming desires and goals are the same …?

Okay, let me break this down.

If I desire a cake.

My goal is getting to the store to get my cake.

The steps required are digging the car out of the driveway, clearing the snow off it, driving safely to the store and back home again with the cake.

But what if I don’t want to dig the car out?

That gets in the way of my goal, which keeps me from what I desire.

Right?

So my desires and my goal are out of line with each other.

That took a lot of brain.

And now I want cake.

Damn it.

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