You're not here just to get by, to check a box.

No, you're here for something different.

Maybe it's your desire to chase down that sunrise while the rest of the world sleeps.

To embrace the difficult, the inconvenient, in exchange for that little bit of glory you'll soon feel as you pour your morning coffee and start your day.

Or maybe it's your fascination with the fact that every time you ask yourself

if there's more, if you have anything left, the answer always seems

to be yes, and maybe that's it. That what you're capable of in a world of finitude and constraint and limitation

seems to be the only thing with absolutely no bounds.

The human soul undergoes a sort of transformation, if you will.

Every time we look around at what currently is and decide it will soon be the

gateway to something more. And that's life's best kept secret. The word decide. The idea that we choose

whether to accept things as they are or to change them,

that we have within us the ability to push further than we've ever pushed

to find what was once only existent in our imaginations.

And this will always be true. You get what you seek,

what you're willing to endure. And while some see this tradeoff as too much, as a cost far too

expensive, others see it as the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity

to give some of you so that you can grow and improve all of you. See, each footstep

is far more than a point on the earth. It's a declaration, a commitment to give more than most would give so that you

can feel what only a few will feel. So remember that when things seem trivial, when it's easier to

call it a day or turn it around,

that the simple act of continuing forward puts you in the minority.

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