→We spend so much of our lives chasing the next goal that we forget why we started running in the first place. We call it ambition, and maybe it is, but somewhere along the way it becomes autopilot. You hit a goal, then another, then another, and yet you still feel like you’re falling behind.
At some point, I realized growth isn’t always measured by how many boxes I check off or how busy I can make myself look. Sometimes, real growth means stopping for a second and asking, what am I even doing this for?
We romanticize the grind. The next deadline, the next milestone, the next step. But the truth is, the moments that shaped me most weren’t the achievements — they were the pauses. The quiet mornings when I remembered how much I love writing just for the sake of writing. The walks that reminded me that ideas don’t come from overworking; they come from living.
It’s so easy to forget that peace can be productive too. You can take a break and still be evolving. You can pause without losing momentum. The world will keep spinning, but you get to decide how you move with it.
Maybe you don’t need a new goal right now. Maybe you just need to reconnect with the version of yourself who wanted this in the first place. She’s still there — the girl who dreamed, who believed, who didn’t need proof that she was on the right path.
Sometimes remembering your why is the only kind of growth that really matters.
First & Jenn 
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