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Use Your Frustrations to Fuel Your Goals

Instead of letting them eat away at you.

Ryan J
2 min readJan 6, 2025
Photo by Andrea Cassani on Unsplash

Let’s face it, very few of us are living our ‘ideal’ life.

Sure, we may be happy and content with how things are going, for the most part, but deep down, there are always things that could be better.

Whether it be work, family life, or something more personal, we all have areas in life that frustrate us, and we wish we could change.

A lot of the time these stresses go unchecked. We ignore them and push the feelings aside, just so we can get on with our day.

Which is fine, I guess.

But what if instead of letting these frustrations niggle at us day in and day out we flip the script.

What if we use these irritating parts of our lives as fuel to make a change?

For example:

Personally, work is an area of my life I’d like to change.

It’s not that I don’t like my job, it’s just now that I’m close to hitting that 40-year-old mark I feel there is more to life than working for someone else and in an ideal world I’d be my own boss and living life on my terms.

I’m sure you can relate.

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Ryan J
Ryan J

Written by Ryan J

Writer from Northern Ireland 🍀 | Based in Sydney 🦘 | Exploring life, ideas, and stories worth telling.

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