# Minding my goals (ian's corner)

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**Category:** Life\
**Created:** [December 13, 2021, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/minding-my-goals-ians-corner/9933 "2021-12-13T03:46:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/minding-my-goals-ians-corner/9933/39 "2023-04-07T18:33:18Z")

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I have to say that I was really affected with this article too.

For a few years, I’m realizing that I’ve been forcing myself to eat frogs because of my background, which was just living in discomfort. Even though my quality of life widely increased, I was still stuck in a mental state which says “work to get out of this really bad place”.

But now, I’m living OK. I don’t need to work that much to be happy. So work has transformed from “I want to work to have happiness” to “I want to work because I’ve always done it” (with a small touch of greed)

**If I don’t start reducing my load and work on being happy now, when will I do it?** I don’t need to have attained “success” to start working on that. Eating frogs, attracts frogs.

That’s an idea that I’ve also found in 37signals books such as [Basecamp’s Shape Up book](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/basecamps-shape-up-book/10701), _REMOTE_ and _It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work_.

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