Listen to the way you talk about the thing you want.
It sits somewhere ahead of you and it has for a while.
Next month. After this project. Once things settle.
That's future tense and it costs nothing to speak in.
You can hold a whole life there.
Now listen to someone already doing it.
They talk about last week. What broke, what they tried, what they'll patch tomorrow because they turned up today.
Nobody in motion speaks in future tense.
That's the tell. Not the size of the ambition or how well you can describe it.
Just the tense you reach for when someone asks.
There's no shortcut into the past tense.
You get there by doing the thing.
Someone asks about it this week.
Which tense will you use?
