I've had some Incredible Highs Points in my Career Journey so far.
I have Written Daily Articles, from Idea to Publish, for over 1,000 Days Straight.
I have Received Over 100 Awards and Nominations for my Work.
Been on a Billboard in Times Square.
Even just this Weekend, I received something I Never Thought Possible...
A Doctorate of Advanced Studies in Psychology, Honoris Causa.
For those unaware, when I began my Undergraduate Degree...
I Started as a Psychology Major...
Only to Believe that it was "Not Right" for me, so I turned to the "Practical" Business Degree...
And Today I am Being Recognized for my Research in Psychology.
Funny How Life Works.
But Here is the Thing...
As Humbled and Honored as I am from all of these "High Highs"...
That is Not where the Value of My Journey Comes From.
You Know what I was Most Excited About in the Past Two Weeks for My Career?
10 Days after Hitting 1,000 Days of Writing in a Row...
Means I am Now 1% of the Way to My Next 1,000 Days of Writing.
Recognizing that 1% was what Hit Me.
Not the 1,000 Days Achievement...
But the Next 1%.
I have Worked and Talked with Many People over the Years...
And Most of them are Chasing the High Highs.
The Goals...
The Awards...
The Money...
The Fame...
But what they All Discover...
Is that the High Highs are Hollow Once Achieved.
It Feels Amazing "In" The Moment...
Then Nearly Immediately After...
The Feeling is Gone.
The Stressors in their Lives Kick Back In...
The Next High High Calls Out to them...
Like a Siren Leading the Sailor to their Death.
What Happens to People So Often is that they Chase these High Highs...
Which Each Become More and More Hollow Feeling...
Until there is No Feeling in them at All.
I Get It because they have Impacted Me Less and Less Over the Years as Well.
But...
What Keeps Me Going is that I have Learned that the Value is Not in the High Highs.
That is the True Challenge.
So Many Think that they High Highs Provides what their Soul is Looking For.
They Do Not.
They Never Have.
They Never Will.
It is Still Good to Have Goals to Set You in an Intentional Direction in Your Life...
But the Goal is Not the Value.
The Value is in the Process...
In the 1% Progress that You Make.
In the Recognition of Another Day Moving Forward.
In Understanding that When Most People Quit...
You Decided to Continue.
It May be a Small Step Forward...
But One Step is Still More than No Steps.
And One Step Becomes Two...
Two Leads to Seven...
Seven becomes Thirty...
Thirty becomes a Hundred...
And the Momentum takes Over without You Realizing How Far You're Really Going.
Yes, the High Highs are Wonderful...
But the Value is in Overcoming the Low Lows...
Taking Each and Every Step Forward.
Finding Ways to Overcome, Grow, and Cultivate Yourself.
The Journey is the Best Part.
When You Learn to Love the Journey...
When the 1% Means More than the Goal...
You Will Begin to Overcome the Lie of the High Highs.
Society is So Focused on the High Highs...
But the Reason?
Is because They are Not "Taking" the Steps.
When You Fail to Take Steps Forward...
The High Highs Appear to be these Unattainable and Monumental Things...
But the Truth is that they are Far Less Impossible than People Realize.
In Reality, they are Mole Hills, Not Mountains.
What Most People Fail to Understand is that the Beauty and Wonder in Life can be Found Constantly...
Often in the Smallest of Things...
If We Open Our Eyes to See the Value that is All Around Us...
Where We Discover that the Journey has So Much More Value to Provide than We Realize.
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