The document discusses the common human tendency to overestimate future achievements and the entrepreneurial mindset that drives this optimism. It highlights the cyclical nature of goal-setting, where accomplishments quickly become standard, and the importance of believing in one's ability to achieve significant goals. Ultimately, achieving success may not bring the extraordinary feelings expected, but rather a realization that goals become normal with time and belief.

2. There's a startling discovery you'll
notice when you start to achieve
significant success.

3. I mean success that's bigger and better
than anything you've already
accomplished.

4. One thing that is common to all
humans is how we "overestimate" our
future.

5. They say this is only common in
Americans, but it's present in ALL
people.

6. This "entrepreneurial" mindset.

7. The kind where you look out into the
future, and see things much brighter
than they really are.

8. The reason for this is to simply keep us
moving forward.

9. Sure, it feels great to achieve stuff, but
that feeling doesn't very long.

10. Pretty soon we've got our sights set on
something else.

11. Even world championship teams know
that can't bask in glory forever.

12. It's only a matter of time before the
next season starts and they've got to
defend their title.

13. This plays out in any kind of forward
movement.

14. Take jogging, for example.

15. At the beginning, the goal is to run for
a mile without stopping.

16. Once that happens, then it's two
miles, then three.

17. When you get up to three or four per
day, then the focus shifts to decreasing
times for the same distance.

18. I'm sure you'll notice the same thing,
in any of your previous
accomplishments.

19. Which means you've already noticed
that "startling discovery" that I alluded
to earlier.

20. Before we achieve something, we kind
of put it up on a pedestal.

21. But when we achieve, it comes back
down to Earth.

22. It seems normal.

23. Sometimes you may even have
wondered what the big deal was.

24. The secret is that ANYTHING you can
think of, no matter how BIG and FAR
OUT it may seem, can one day seem as
normal as tying your shoes.

25. All you've got to do is get from where
you are now, to where you want to be.

26. It may take a while, and it SHOULD
take a while if you've got big goals that
are worth pursuing.

27. But it shouldn't be scary, or difficult, or
frustrating.

28. All you've got to do is shift your mind,
so that you believe you can achieve it,
and you will.

29. But be warned, though.

30. When you DO achieve it, the heavens
won't open, you won't be invited for a
ticker tape parade, you won't feel like
a super hero.

31. Because you will have learned a very
under appreciated secret of life.

32. That you can get ANYTHING you want
in life, so long as you believe you can.

33. Because when you do, getting THAT
(whatever THAT is) will be as normal as
baking a cake.

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