Describing how I plan to run a marathon and how I bought running shoes and a treadmill (because it’s really hot outside and that whole sweating thing is icky) and joined a gym and found this cool training plan online certainly makes me feel good . . . but it also makes me feel like I’m already halfway to the finish line even though I haven’t jogged a single step. Declaring what we want to be and how we will get there causes us to feel we are further along the path of becoming who we want to be—even though we have in reality done nothing but talk.*
