I came across a quote recently that said the road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

I thought this demonstrated or captured a realization that's pretty hard to articulate.

And that is just how tempting it is to rationalize, stopping, or discontinuing your journey when life gets tough.

How much sense it always makes to want to call it quits when things get uncomfortable?

It's like, it's not just that doing something valuable is hard.

It's that it's hard and every three feet there's an invitation to not have to do it anymore.

There's an endless supply of exit signs and escape routes.

Therefore, accomplishing a goal is simultaneously saying yes to the challenging things

while also saying no to the comfortable things.

It's fighting off two demons at once. The good news, though, is that you were made to do just that.

You just have to change the way you internalize the process.

You have to change what you see along the way.

I talk a lot about perfection as the way.

I talk a lot about perfection as the enemy, and that's something I wholeheartedly believe

to be true, but I generally talk about it in the context of perfection keeping us from starting.

I try and unveil perfection as this defense mechanism that it truly is.

Oh, things aren't perfect, I'll wait.

Things aren't exactly where I want them to be.

Then I won't go.

Emphasizing that it's in going that perfection is crafted,

like a statue being chiseled from stone.

You fall, you get back up and find that in doing so,

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