As a high school senior, he set three goals for himself-- be an All--American football player, marry a beauty queen, and make a million dollars before he was 30.
He made All--American twice, married two beauty queens, made two million dollars before he was 30 and when I met him in therapy he had just tried to kill himself. Attaining all of his life-long goals and still feeling miserable about himself, brought unbearable despair and he tried to end his life.
He hated himself and his childhood history but he was taught and promised that he could overcome his past, could feel good about himself, IF he set some high goals and reached them.
But it didn't work for him and it won't work for you or me, because "you can never get enough of what you don't need."
Fortunately, this man got another chance and this time he focused on the inside rather than the outside and it worked.
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