As Harunyei noted, I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth.

And then I ask myself the same question.

As Mark Twain put it, the secret of getting ahead is getting started.

And that's where people get stuck.

You're literally like the bird. You could fly anywhere you want. You can go anywhere you want to go.

And look, I know you've got a litany of excuses and all of them are valid.

You've got a job. You can't just leave or you don't have a job and you don't have the money.

Your family is in one place. It's the only thing that you've ever known.

You only speak one language. You've never traveled before. You don't have a passport.

You can't afford the gas money. There are a thousand real reasons not to go.

But the truth is that none of them matter. The truth is if you want to build something in your life that you have to remember.

What Mark Twain said, you have to get started.

Because at the end of the day, that is literally the only thing that's holding you back.

You're not moving. And once you get the simplicity of that, once you understand that you could act right now.

You could say fuck all the excuses. You could stop making them.

You could stop giving into them no matter how valid they are.

No matter how real they may seem.

You can finally decide that you are going to get a permute.

That you're going to create that momentum. That you're going to take a step. That you're going to make the demand.

That you create momentum. That you get something done. That you fucking find an answer.

Or as Hannibal said, that you're going to find a way or make one.

If you have to carve through fucking rock, do it. Because human before you have done it.

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