What you need most is the reminder that you need nothing at all.

It costs zero dollars to begin.

To see the road before you is one leading to upside.

Oh, but this is the real world, one might think,

and in the real world exists real and tangible obstacles.

Sure.

Obstacles that are solved one by one when you move into them, directly into them.

Ill-equipped, ill-prepared, not quote-unquote ready, but willing, willing to learn as you go. That is, as far as I'm concerned,

the only way to move forward into the abyss. As John Maxwell's explained, a car moving out

of a parking space at night can't see the entire way home, but the lights illuminate

enough to get out of the parking spot. And then out of the parking lot entirely, and then make a

right onto the road and the next road, and then ultimately pull into the driveway landing at home.

Too many of us don't get in and turn the keys because we, using the same metaphor, can't see a street sign four miles down the road.

We don't go because the problem wasn't solved before we saw the equation.

We don't pick up the book because it wasn't fully

comprehended before it was open. Life's not a game of answers. Life is a game of moving forward

without them. A game of picking up pieces along the way.

Forget what you've done.

Forget what's fallen short or not met expectations.

What have you not done?

What is your heart longing for?

And yes, even the things that seem absurd and out of reach, even the things that when imagined feel like a complete reinvention of the self, the notion what will my friends think,

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