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My greatest contribution is yet to take place.

See, I turn 37 in a few weeks and I now know what is possible in a decade.

I now understand how much can change in a decade.

My son is already and only 10. What a posture to hold.

What a presence and sometimes pressure as I think about my future and his. I now know that when I am 47 I will only have one person's actions to look back on to understand my reality in 2035.

My own.

This writing process has allowed me to track my actions and connection points with people almost like a formula, a math equation. You can see how the cities, their economies, my hobbies, and my occupations all contributed to my reality today.

It was impossible to guess until you ran the numbers backwards.

It's no longer completely impossible to see how the numbers will add up for the future.

Today's food and focus is tomorrow's energy and direction.

Spirituality, discipline, and maturity create an awareness that not all of the lessons have to apply for the next ten years. Unless you didn't learn from them the first time. 

The beauty and excitement for this next decade is that regardless of our failures or successes, if we are willing to admit them, reflect on them, and tell the truth about what we see —

we get to use them for our own growth, we get to remove the obstacles for the next round.

I can see how doubt delayed me, how fear betrayed me. They don’t get to come with me. 

Our next round of growth does not come from new information but from a new reflection. 

Removing the plank in our own eye.

Watering our own plants.

Washing the shirt we are wearing.

Realizing we spilled our own food.

In our attention to detail we see where our attention has been misplaced.

My greatest contribution is about to take place, not for you, not for the algorithm, not for my clients.

My greatest contribution is about to take place for me.

Working my own life in my own favor. 

Watering my lemon tree.

Loving my wife.

Being patient with my kids.

Serving my clients’ needs.

And getting better at riding my dirt bike.

All while working with a new fervor, knowing hard work produces not just once, but for a lifetime.

The hard work of awareness, accountability, and action have never betrayed me.

The hard work of removing what doesn't work.

No matter who it is or what idea it is.

SAY IT WITH ME