So you have goals and aspirations. Beautiful. You have hopes and dreams. Incredible.

But what are you doing about it? Because there's this equilibrium we have to create and maintain

as we navigate our day-to-day lives.

And no one addresses this.

In my mind, better than Thoreau in Walden, when he states,

if you've built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost.

That's where they should be.

Now put foundations under them.

He addresses the very nature of creation, of dreaming, right?

He says, you know, there's an element of idealism and aspiration, but you have to marry that

with pragmatism. Keep your head focused on the mountaintop, dream, aspire. Imagine what life could be.

But don't spend your day in thought.

Build the foundations.

Put the foundations under that castle in the air

by doing, by stepping, by every day, creating one more stair in the staircase

that will bring that new reality into existence. Over the years, I've talked a lot about

Stephen Pressfield's book, The War of Art. Really, the impact it's had on me, I think for good reason.

You know, personally, I tend to gravitate away from structure.

In fact, unless I'm being deliberate and cognizant of how I'm planning my day, things can get messy pretty quickly.

So I have to really be intentional about that.

And there were times in 2014, 2015, 2016, where, you know, I had visions of building something

big and meaningful and making an impact

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