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The Importance of Enjoying the Process
The Three Things You Need to Get Better
Here’s how you become successful in anything in life. You have a goal. You know where you are. And you have a plan on how to get from where you are to where you want to go. What’s in your control? Certainly, not where you are. That’s something that’s in the present moment and is being dictated by past experience, genetics, and many, many other things that are simply not up to you. You do have control over which goal you set. However, again, what that goal is, exactly, isn’t really important to a Stoic. These “worldly goals” are simply mediums by which to attain our more important role: to be a virtuous person.
Virtue is the Only Good
Your goal is to become a person of virtue. To do that, you must strive for excellence in something. To become strong, you must lift something. Therefore, worldly goals are very important, but it doesn’t really matter exactly what it is because you are simply using that worldly goal to attain your spiritual goal of becoming virtuous.
