The Grand Illusion: Why Planning and Goals Are Bullshit – Embrace the Eternal Now
Imagine this: You're meticulously charting your life like a captain navigating a ship across an ocean. Five-year plans, SMART goals, vision boards plastered with dream houses and six-figure salaries. You tell yourself it's the path to success, happiness, fulfillment. But what if the entire map is drawn on smoke? What if the "future" you're planning for is nothing more than a persistent hallucination cooked up by your brain – an optical illusion of time itself? Buckle up. This isn't your typical self-help pep talk. We're diving into the mind-bending truth that long-term planning and rigid goal-setting are, at their core, elaborate bullshit. And the radical alternative – living one day at a time – isn't just sober advice from recovery programs; it's the key to shattering the chains of anxiety and unlocking a life of raw, unfiltered presence. The Illusion of the Future: Your Brain's Greatest Trick Time feels linear: past behind you, present fl...