I feel as though many of us are not searching for a particular goal, but a particular lifestyle. Whenever we achieve our goals, it doesn’t feel like the life-changing thing we always wanted. Celebrities often verify this by exclaiming that the success “doesn’t feel any different.“ It does not change who you are. I agree. Every change in my life can feel the same unless I change something within myself. For this reason I challenge you to live as if you have already achieved your dreams. 
”The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.“ - Eleanor Roosevelt
Don’t live with constant stress in hopes of achieving a dream. You’ll only condition yourself to live with stress. That stress will be there once you achieve your dream too (and for the rest of your life). Push forward but do not let the goal consume you and hurt you. Instead, choose to create the lifestyle you desire. Do you want to wake up and create art every day? Then do it! Enjoy every moment you have to create art even if it’s only for an hour. Do you want to have enough money to eat out every night? Then enjoy the one night per month you can eat out as if it were every night. Enjoy it and cherish it. Live the life of your dreams today because your circumstances will never change the way you choose to live. 

 Only you can choose how you live.