If you had a guarantee before you started that you would accomplish everything you want and get everything you desire, life would lose 90% of its fun, meaning, and fulfillment.
Rewards would lose their rewarding qualities. Because it’s not just having the reward that makes us feel good. It’s earning the reward when there is a real chance of losing it. Everything it takes to accomplish an objective and everything we risk defines the emotions and meaning of the rewards that come with it.
The work we do in uncertainty holds life’s greatest fulfillment. Life’s most beautiful adventures are the journeys we take where we know the desired destination but not the exact roads that will take us there. The challenges we accept, where we must discover and build the solutions as we go, contain life’s most enduring lessons.
The chance to earn a reward is a light in the dark that calls us to take the step forward into an uncertain experience. Taking that first step and each future step with courage and discipline allows us to fulfill our purpose.
We think we want guarantees, but we don’t. We want purpose and meaning. Though you may be afraid, stepping forward into uncertainty without a guarantee of success is a step closer to not only your goal but also to your purpose.
The time is now. Do the work.
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