View life through this lens:
Life is more about learning and experiencing than accomplishing and achieving.
If every moment is about learning, growing and experiencing something new then there is no endpoint.
If there is a finality, a single moment that holds the weight of all your validation, you set yourself up for a crash and burn, and even if you succeed, there is nothing after that.
There is no final exam in life.
There are only progress checks along the way.
Even “progress” is not the right word because growth isn’t linear.
Each moment simply reveals something more about who you are.
And so you put yourself out there,
You take chances,
You explore new territory,
You go before you’re ready,
You jump in with two feet,
You participate,
You choose yourself
Because every time you do you learn something new.
And then you focus your energy on growing or applying what you learned.
And you keep repeating that over and over and over again.
And that’s life.
This moment – like every moment – is just a moment. It will pass.
It does not define who you are.
So give your full self to the moment. Everything you have become and everything you know to be true. And when it’s over, reflect on it and keep on growing.
String together a lifetime of these individual moments and they will say, “There was a resilient person who kept on going.”