Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

How I kept going even when I was lost

12 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Utkarsh Narang talks with someone who spent years chasing a "someday" mindset, waiting to be happy after selling a company or hitting revenue targets. The conversation explores why people defer happiness until future milestones and how to find joy in the present while still pursuing ambitious goals.

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Whether someone who wants to lose weight, someone who wants to start a business, someone who wants to quit a job, someone who wants to start a family and have kids. And we all keep saying that there'll be a right. And even I'll simplify it further and let's see what you feel about this. I will be happy when something happens. Yes. How does one overcome that?
I've been like, I remember every time I did that, it was like I, I lost so much of life trying to pursue this someday approach where, you know, I'll be happy once my company reaches that level and once I sell it for, for this much and once we reach that revenue. And listen, it's important to have great objectives, things you pursue. That is important. That's goal setting. That's having objectives, having a trajectory, something you reach out to. And that's great. However, you do not have to postpone joy and postpone happiness until you get that.