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Hey.

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Well done for getting through another module.

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Now today I want to talk to you about what to do when the goal just seems really really far away.

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You might be sitting there thinking, "Oh man. I've still got so much stuff to learn and there's so

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many things I don't know.

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And it seems like the more I learn the more it seems like there's more stuff to learn."

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So what should you do if you feel like this?

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Now a few years back I was in Africa and I was climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and one of the things that

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really bothers me is that even though I'm trudging along like day by day it felt like as if the peak

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was just like really far away.

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And it was getting further and further away.

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It didn't feel like I was making progress even though I felt like I was working really hard.

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And at this point the guide for the National Park just said just look down at your feet just look at

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your feet taking steps one by one and I tried a try just looking at every step as I went along.

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And surprisingly just by focusing on completing the one small task like putting one foot in front of

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the other and not thinking about anything else like grand goals of something, I actually got that far

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pretty quickly.

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And when I looked up it was like whoa! I've actually gone a really long distance.

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So I guess what I'm trying to say is that you know a lot of things that are worth doing are quite large

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goals and if you focus on that large goal it can feel like you're like an ant that's moving along and

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you're not making much progress.

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So don't focus on the end.

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Just focus on doing one step at a time.

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Just cram in one hour a day of coding or just solving one coding challenge.

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And the more that you do this

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I mean it's the laws of physics right?

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You're eventually going to get there

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but it just won't feel like it's as far away or it takes quite as long.

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So try doing that the next time you feel like your goals are really out of reach.

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And as long as you're making daily progress then the laws of physics state that you eventually have

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to get there right?

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So keep going is what I'm trying to say.

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You're doing great.