When the water rises, it sink or swim.

We pick up certain truths as we make our way through life, realizations, little awakenings,

patterns that allow us to map the things around us so that we can

navigate this crazy place. And here's one such realization for my own journey. When you pursue your

best, you live your best life.

Your best is a North Star to guide you a bar, line, or benchmark that's always moving,

a reminder that you can always do more and be more.

A reminder that life tomorrow can always be different than life today.

To pursue your best, in my opinion, is synonymous with capturing all that is good in this world.

Capitalizing on potential is to utilize those resources in need of an architect.

That pen in need of a poet, brush in need of a painter, story in need of a writer or populace in need of a leader.

It's a pursuit that not only supplements our existence here on Earth.

No, I believe it is, in and of itself, why we are here on Earth.

But like every ideal pragmatism seems to get in the way.

Meaning, well, life is more difficult in execution than it looks on paper.

We can't be our quote unquote best every day.

We sometimes fall short of that mark.

Our outcomes don't always align with our expectations.

The perpetual journey to one's best is neither straight nor without discomfort.

It's more like the navigating of a new world without a map or compass,

a world that we're by default ill-equipped to take on when we begin.

And I believe that 99% of success is reliant upon the willingness to move into that great unknown

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