Mount Everest and...
One would rarely hear someone saying, “I am preparing to climb the Mount Everest in the next few months and I am also preparing for _________.” Doesn’t work that way, does it?
If you are going to climb Mount Everest and every ounce of your energy, focus is not directed towards making you ready for that, then most likely you won’t be coming back.
Having a Mount Everest to climb and being serious about it removes all the clutter around it. You have to ignore everything else if you want to live.
The illusion that most of us live in is fantasising about climbing Mount Everest some day in the future. Along with that, we can fantasise about a 100 other things.
But in order to achieve a real goal, we need to identify our Mount Everest and eliminate everything else.