Create like you're going to throw it all away.

Like not one word matters.

Like there is no audience.

Because when you do it for yourself and yourself only,

you can finally do it honestly.

In so many ways, courage is just honesty.

I think the inclination is to hide from our shadows.

To attempt to outrun them, leave them behind.

But the world I want to live in is a product of dancing with those shadows.

It's in bringing them in and not keeping them out.

A world with no separation between your hopes and your fears is one of freedom.

See, throughout each chapter of life, excellence has evolved, and it's evolved along with me,

like a chameleon of sorts, changing, bending, transforming to fit the time.

Excellence has looked like the courage to start at times, to continue at times, to not stop the right thing at times, and to walk away from the wrong

things at times. It's been learning to put the armor on, and now perhaps it's learning

to take it off, to step out and present that same message to the world, unpolished.

Less thought through.

More flaws, more cracked.

See, to be pristine is to be admired.

To be brave enough to be flawed, though.

To be so honest it increases your heart rate, to be so much of

yourself that it creates a seismic shift. That's excellence. And we know excellence seems

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