This is an important question. Because you are becoming them.
Dr David McClelland of Harvard University found, over a thirty year study period that our reference groups, the people we habitually associate with determine 95% of our success or failure.
So if you just do one thing this year then reviewing your ‘reference group’ is likely to have the biggest impact.
Almost everyone I know who has achieved greatness in something, be that business, sports, the arts, they all began their journey to escape something.
When we want something, we are taught to visualise that thing, to focus on that image, until we have it.
Have you ever moved into a new house and seen something that needed fixing and thought “I’ll get on to that soon”?
As humans we have an insatiable desire to explain untoward events so we can get on with solutions.