That thing that gives you butterflies, that lights you up, that world you see when you close your eyes.

Chase that.

With all of your soul, chase it.

Yeah. It's easy to brush off life's potential.

It's just outside the realm of possibility.

To see the ideal is some form of window shopping that you can almost touch.

A fantasy to be explored when you sit back in your office chair or pass time in the doctor's

office waiting room.

But I think these aspirations mean more than that.

Not distractions, but a North Star.

Not a diversion, but the path.

And by the way, I'm not naive about this pursuit and all that it entails the truth behind it.

I'd never advocate that what's possible or meant to be is somehow easy.

In fact, I'd argue the only way something is meant to be is if you're willing to commit to the

difficulty in bringing it to life.

Otherwise, it wasn't meant to be anything but a missed opportunity.

Because it surely will be a difficult road.

And here's what we come to learn.

Everything of value is difficult.

You know, in an attempt to oversimplify,

I often break life down into the easy thing versus the difficult but meaningful thing, and in some ways sure that's true.

But I can also honestly say it would have been more difficult for me to have stayed where I was, not moved at all, to not have pursued what I believed in.

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