I can definitely relate, except not for the gym type of goals, rather academic goals. I was studying STEM to be a researcher initially. I sunk pretty much every

I can definitely relate, except not for the gym type of goals, rather academic goals. I was studying STEM to be a researcher initially. I sunk pretty much every minute of my time into trying to achieve that. Despite this, I just could not get the marks needed to get where I wanted. That destroyed my mental health for a long time. I tied my self-worth into my education, and that only. I ended up developing something very similar to OCD that I still struggle with today. Ended up giving up on that pursuit, and went into the software world and became a developer. It was really hard throwing that previous dream out, sunk cost and all, but I have never been happier than I am now. I realized that my single focus and obsession about achieving that specific goal meant that the rest of my life had been essentially halted. That's not the case anymore. I think sometimes, at least for myself, we can get so caught up in the idealized end goal, that we forget that life happens between now and the end goal. If we don't take care of ourselves between those two end-points, we will either never reach that goal, or when we do, be unable to appreciate it.