It’s hard to be you.
I get it.

It’s not easy to find enough time to focus on achieving your dreams. There are always other commitments. Always other distractions. There’s always another temptation around another corner.

Life has a way of getting in the way.
It’s ok.
I understand.

I know how you feel when you’re stuck in the riptide of time. I know what it’s like when those hopes that once seemed so close are suddenly swept from your grasp in the raging rapids.

The days seem long but the years fly on by.

If you’re anything like me, maybe sometimes you wish you could just stop time from rolling forward so fast. So maybe you try to hold on to it tightly – to capture the moment in a paralyzing embrace.

You try to strangle it, to squeeze a little harder. You want to force time to stay still, so you can for once – for just one time – truly appreciate the present without it suddenly slipping out of reach.

But you can’t do it.
Nobody can.

You blink your eyes as an 11-year-old and suddenly you’ve become 31. Or 40. Or however old you are right now.

What happened to those dreams anyway?
Where did they go?

Are they still dangling on a collapsing cobweb in the attic of your memory?

Because if they are there, if there is still a faint light flickering in the distance, it’s time to reach out and grasp that future you’ve dreamed of.

There’s a future you waiting out there. I guarantee it.
It’s the you that you want to be. All you have to do is commit to be it.

To hold on to your dreams, you just have to be yourself in a world whose sole job is to turn you into somebody else.

It’s not easy to be yourself. It’s a battle. But the secret to winning the battle is to know your enemy. And that’s the good news. Because the only enemy you have is you.

There’s one thing – and only one thing – that’s holding you back from being the true you that you want to be.

It’s the stories you tell yourself inside your head.

The stories we tell ourselves can be limiting or freeing. They could hold you back or propel you forward.

  • After all, I didn’t think I could run a 5k until I finished my first
  • Then when I completed a half maratho