Rewrite Your Success Story: How to Embrace Psychological Time for Unprecedented Growth

I was a terrible ‘employee’ for the first ten years of my career.

There, I said it. Not the kind of terrible that gets you fired on the spot, but the type that’s just… underwhelming. Like a low-budget superhero movie.

You expect fireworks and get a sparkler instead.

And boy, did I want to be the fireworks show.

The issue wasn’t laziness or a lack of skills. It was my approach to time. Like many of you, time to me was a relentless taskmaster, ticking away as I chased one goal after another.

It was like running on a treadmill while watching the clock, hoping to outrun time.

Spoiler alert: nobody wins that race.

As a newly yet indirectly elected high-flying small business CEO and an unapologetic health nut, my life’s motto was always, “Aim for the stars, and you might hit the ceiling fan.”

All I craved was success. I set goals like I was programming a GPS for a trip to Mars — ambitious, slightly unrealistic, but hey, dreaming big is my cardio.

So, there I was, many years in, working like a machine that runs on espresso and sheer willpower.

You know, the kind that would make the Energizer Bunny look like a sloth. At that time, I even wrote an essay about how the most productive people walk faster. I was so focused on achieving ‘goals.’

But here’s the twist — while I was busy chasing success, I missed the whole point.

The process, the journey, the day-to-day grind — that’s where the magic happens. I was so sucked into the realm of psychological time I could’ve been the poster child for “How to Turn Today into Someday.”

It was like I was on a treadmill, going faster and faster, thinking I was on the highway to success.

Newsflash: I wasn’t moving an inch. If anything, I probably broke the world record for the longest stationary jog.

I finally realized the process isn’t just a slice of the pie; it’s the whole darn bakery. It’s not about the destination; it’s about the hilarious, messy, and sometimes beet-smoothie-explosion-like…