My biggest fear (maybe my only one)

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Brian Kight

My biggest fear is that I will die without fulfilling my potential. I’m afraid that at the end of my life, I will not have done half the things I thought I would do. It’s my only genuine fear.

I don’t fear dying. I fear dying with the disappointment in my heart that I could have done better.

I don’t fear failure. I fear failure to launch and maximize my purpose.

I don’t fear how long it will take. I fear having this much time to execute my vision and still not doing it because I drifted onto autopilot and settled into a routine on the mountain of average. 

I don’t fear conflict, criticism, pain, or embarrassment. I fear hesitation, inaction, distraction, and regret.

Give me all the conflict, criticism, pain, and embarrassment that is the path to my purpose and the price of my fulfillment. I will gladly lay those bricks and all the others without hesitation or regret.

Hopefully, the bricks I lay serve more than just my life. A big part of my vision is that the people I love and the people I serve can stand on the bricks I lay long after I’m gone and continue laying their own bricks to build better things for themselves and others than I can imagine now.

I might fail, but I won’t fail to lay the bricks required for what I envision. I might reach the end of my life with disappointment in my heart, but it won’t be the disappointment that I didn’t lay the necessary bricks. It will only be the disappointment that I ran out of time to lay more of them.

Brick by brick. Do the work.

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