Good morning. Welcome to Your World Within Daily. Today, we're going to talk about my favorite quote from J.R. Tolkien, not all who wander are lost. We'll look at certainty and why from chaos comes order. Life is cyclical.

It is an endless cycle of going from the master to the novice again and again and again. Because we set goals bigger than us.

We set out to achieve them, which requires discomfort and stepping out of that status quo,

really pushing yourself. And ultimately, you achieve it, right? Whether macro or

micro, big or small, you set a goal and you achieve it. And what you've done in the process is move

the ceiling to the floor. What was at one point bigger, out of reach, unidentifiable, now it's part of you.

Now it is the floor that you stand on.

It's the new normal.

It's the new standard.

Which means you're now at ground zero again.

You're now in position to pick a new goal that will pull you back out of your

comfort zone. Now you're stronger and you're better equipped than you were the day before.

But you are still at that ground zero level. There's a new goal that requires a new you and a new

transformation. That is the cycle that repeatedly shows itself in life. Progress is the epitome of that

dance that we do. In its book 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson talks about how

from chaos comes order. From the destruction and the disaster and the unknown and the

discomfort, that's where the hero emerges. It's the crux of Western

culture. It's in our movies, our music. But there's a lot there that reflects life. The triumphant

hero earns the status, earns the name, the distinction.

And so every day, you know, we are fighting our own little battles or big battles.

But the point is, we're fighting something that allows us to emerge victorious.

I save that metaphorical princess and storm the castle. J.R.R. Tolkien, he says not all who wander are lost. And it's a sort of a

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