Right. If removing one habit gives you more time, focus, money, or peace, then the sacrifice has a practical purpose beyond simply testing your willpower.

And that distinction is important because discipline can easily turn into unnecessary restriction when the goal becomes proving something to yourself.

That's still useful, but self-control shouldn't always mean saying no. Sometimes it means knowing when saying no serves a real purpose.

That's where I think the intention matters. If you're sacrificing something useful just to prove you can live without it, what exactly are you learning?

Yes, because removing something from your life can expose whether you actually needed it or simply became comfortable having it around.

Yes, it's so moving. And you are absolutely right, it's like our fingers always add additional flavour to it. Thank you for reading and have a wonderful day too

Over here too, swallow foods like that, we always eat it with our hands. I wish you can taste it because you will so much like it 😂😁

If your income suddenly doubled but your free time was cut in half, would you consider your life to have improved? Why?

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I like that. Maybe becoming a better version of yourself isn't always about adding another ambition to the list. Sometimes it's having the courage to remove one that no longer belongs there.

And that doesn't erase the value of the old goal. It may have been exactly what you needed at that stage, even if it isn't what you need anymore.

That makes sense. If reaching the goal itself no longer excites you, continuing just to prove you can achieve it may not mean much.

Which raises a difficult question: how do you know you've genuinely outgrown a goal rather than simply giving up because pursuing it became difficult?

Yes, because sometimes people remember the ambition you announced years ago and don't understand that your priorities have moved on.

And I think that's an important part of growth. You should be allowed to change your definition of success without feeling like you betrayed your younger self.

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That probably makes letting go easier too, because you stop seeing every abandoned goal as a failure.

So growth for you has also meant becoming more selective, not simply adding more things to your life.