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Day Zero - The Question

This is a super quick and easy blog post. Over the weekend I began listening to an audiobook called The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*CK . It has so far been an enjoyable read  listen.  There was one part that I heard that got me thinking about my long-term ambitions. The author tells a story of how he had one day imagine that he would be a rock star. It was his life-long goal. However, he kept putting it off because he had a checklist of items he needed to accomplish before he got there.  This of course delayed him from achieving the goal. He realized that he fell in love with the idea of the result he was trying to achieve, but he didn't actually want it. He filled his time with milestones that led to nowhere. The revelation in his mind was that had he truly wanted the dream, he would have dove right into it and struggled through it no matter what. No milestones or checkmarks would have held him back. So this got me thinking... There are a lot of "dreams" that I fantasiz...