Why Your Goals Are Stealing Your Peace.

Words I like: "Cease to hope, and you will cease to fear." — Hecato of Rhodes

Pablo’s Perspective:

If your peace and self-worth are tied to a goal you’ve already lost..

Why?

You don’t control how it ends.

You only control how hard you try.

You can do everything right and still miss.
The market can turn.
People can lie.
Life can intervene.

The Stoics understood something most people still don’t:
The only thing that actually exists is the present moment.

If you tell yourself, “I’ll be happy once this happens,” you’re not actually living you’re just putting you’re life on hold.

And that’s where the problem starts.

Living in the past creates regret and depression.
Living in the future creates anxiety.
But everything every action, every decision, every opportunity only happens now in the present.

Why detaching from the outcome matters:

1. Obsessing makes you worse
When you fixate on the result, you overthink and force things.

2. Outcomes make weak motivation
If you only move when things are going well, you’ll quit fast.

3. Control what’s actually yours
You don’t control results.
You control effort.
Tie your peace to effort, or the world will control you.

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t care.
It means you care about what you can control.

At the end of the day you’re not behind. You’re just on your own timeline. If the goal happens, great. If not? Fine. They say it’s cliché to focus on the journey instead of the destination but most clichés carry wisdom. The 'journey' isn’t a cliché, it’s the only part of your life you actually get to live.

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Did you know? 💡 

The Stoics weren’t just about philosophy they were tactical about life. Over 2,000 years ago Roman generals would sometimes sleep in the exact spot where they planned to fight the next day. Why? To fully embrace the present moment, detach from fear, and focus only on what they could control their preparation and action. They knew centuries before modern psychology that obsessing over outcomes wastes your life.

-Pablo