what the hell are we doing here if we aren’t going to chase the things that make us feel most alive? if there is something in your soul telling you that you’re capable of more, listen to it! and then go work for it. embarrass yourself trying. spend the years it takes to get better. do whatever it takes to give that feeling a real shot at becoming your life.

stop asking the world to give you what you refuse to give yourself. you want love? be full of it. you want peace? stop surrendering your entire inner life to whatever happens around you. you have so much more power over your own experience than you’ve been led to believe. the source of what you’re looking for isn’t always somewhere out there. a lot of it starts with you.

you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.

one step. one foot in front of the other. keep getting up off the mat. keep going keep going keep going. life rewards the relentless.