Many aspirations are based on what others think we should do.
Run a marathon.
Develop a new popular iPhone app.
Become a New York Times best-selling author.
But just because one person has an idea of betterment, doesn’t mean yours needs to be the same to be worthy of pursuing. Everyone has different ideas and different areas of growth in their lives.
Smoking less for someone who wants to quit.
Walking a few times a week for the person who wants to start exercising.
Logging off by 5pm for someone who wants to improve their work-life balance.
We can re-evaluate what betterment looks like for us, at any time. Does a writer have to become a best-selling author to become better? What if they just wrote more often, or worked on publishing a book, regardless of how many copies sell? What if we made our goals align with our own fulfillment?
We all have different ways of betterment, and they aren’t all going to be represented by a fast run or a full checklist.
Betterment will vary at different ages, and different stages, of one’s life.
Betterment, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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