Elias stared at the heavy iron door, his knuckles white as he gripped the handle of his suitcase. Inside that suitcase was everything he wanted to be rid of: a divorce decree, a stack of final notices, a photograph of a woman who no longer loved him, and a pervasive, crushing apathy that had turned his life into a gray loop of days he couldn't tell apart.

DAN KOE (@thedankoe) on X

Write down exactly what your life will look like in five years if you stay on your current path. Be brutal about the stagnation and regret you might feel.

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