Rain dances work 100% of the time.

If you dance until it rains.

Someone kind of jokingly said this to me recently at an entrepreneur event,

and I thought, man, I get it, it's clever, but there's actual genius behind that.

You tend to get what you're looking for if you don't stop looking.

Right?

Like you eventually arrive where you need to be if your feet don't stop moving.

The question we often find ourselves asking is, did the dance work?

But the real question, the question of value, is how long are you

willing to dance around that fire? How much of yourself did you put into the pursuit? You know,

it's both liberating and terrifying to find out that there is no failure in life.

There's simply the permission we give ourselves to move forward.

That trajectory we continue on up until we reach a point where we look around and say, no, thank you, I'm done.

Because if you're moving forward, you haven't failed. You have not lost. If you're moving forward,

everything is possible. If you're moving forward, you are creating reality.

The question is not have you failed?

The question is, are you still willing to move forward?

It's not did the rain dance bring the rain.

It's were you willing to dance around that fire until the sky's opened up?

I often think about the stoic idea that there are things we can control and there are things we can't.

And knowing that difference is wisdom.

The same idea that has become, as many people know, the serenity prayer.

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