Hitting personal income goals- continued.

To me, money doesn’t answer any lifetime happiness or serenity questions. But when you don’t have any, it’s the only fucking answer. 

A step further on this thought: When you hit your personal income goal, what do you do next? Do you set another one? It’s a weird thing sometimes to “get all the way there.” I have to immediately reset at each plateau. If I don’t, it feels like I’ll drop off a cliff into some kind of income void induced empty hell. 

And each time it happens I have to do a gut check that goes like this: I now have the ability to make different life choices. Should I now: Stay in better hotels? Dine at better restaurants? Eat organic food? Better car? Join a country club? make monthly donations to lonely cats? And with those choices comes the mandatory explanations/debates/arguments with wife unit.  

Then the balancing act starts. How much does this shit really mean? Then- I set a new goal, refocus, and go again. it's a sales life. It ain't bad.