This one is for anyone who knows what it feels like to hold a vision for a long, long time. Entrepreneurs, creatives, athletes, and moms, to name a few.
Look at you. Calm. Quiet. Brimming with candor.
Candor is something that can only be earned, like smile wrinkles or the ability to read a room with lethal accuracy, and you embody it. You are humble and relieved and also…mildly unsure in a way that looks unfamiliar on you.
Because you really did it.
You saw something new and different and worth your energy. You schemed. You ran the calcs. You understood the risks, the rewards, and the odds. You went for it. You’re just wired that way. You had to go for it.
You took small steps every single day. You hustled. You fell. It hurt. You got up again. You felt the highs with grace and took the lows in stride. You wore your adjectives with pride: hungry, determined, scrappy. You said yes when it mattered and no when it didn’t, gave credit, accepted blame.
Calculated. Gritty. Genuine.
People used those words when you came up in conversation. Overcoming obstacles became as true to your identity as the color of your hair. You showed up– no matter what, every day, with heart– for yourself, for your people, for your craft and your mission.
This did not take days. Or weeks. It took years. Decades, even.
But you did it.
You fucking did it.
You chased down your capital D Dream, and… you got it.
I hope you celebrated your ass off. We don’t celebrate enough as a society, but I hope you threw yourself the rager of a lifetime because you earned it.
And now, I see the candor and the calm and the relief in your eyes, and I’m here to float with you in the riptide of accomplishment as we look up at the stars and ask something you know needs asking:
… now what?
No, for real, now what?
We are inundated with information about how to go after our goals. How to create habits, how to build side hustles, how to get up early and cold plunge and self care and do all the things that people do when they have something to chase.
But what happens when we get it?
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