If you have built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost.

That is where they should be.

Now put the foundations under them.

A foundation is not made in a day. It's not flimsy or weak.

It's what holds everything together, and without it, you have useless pieces.

Thore mentions a castle in the air, a goal, the answer resting above us,

hovering over everything and everyone.

But until we put life into it, that castle remains four walls and empty space. It stays part of an imaginary world.

See, most people never get there because they don't understand. They have complete authority over what's real.

They set the guidelines.

With a magic that looks a lot like a single step forward,

with fiction that very closely resembles progress.

Edison said, opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like hard work.

It's not that people are lazy. It's not that they're incapable.

It's that they don't realize how small a step is required to build momentum, to turn a snowflake into an avalanche.

See, you look at that castle in the sky and you shake your head.

You think how nice it would be. You flip on the TV.

Fantasize about million dollar homes.

Debate whether athletes are officially elite.

When you could be building a

foundation for yourself doing something for you all those things you want can be

realized every one of them but the road to excellence means nothing if you don't

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