The hard truth is you can't steer a horse that won't move his feet. You have to get him moving first, come what may and that's what scares people...the bucking unknown.
Right now, some of you are sitting on a young, scared horse and pulling its head around trying to control an outcome that hasn't happened yet.
You have to know that your fear is keeping you from your potential.
Read MoreThe first half of our lives are spent figuring out where we fit, where our container sits, what it looks like, and so forth.
The second half is about what's inside that container.
Midlife smashes the container in ways that are slow and difficult, or painful and dramatic and we humans run from pain.
But when we turn and face it…. It still burns like hell.
Read MoreWhy am I sharing such a humiliating story? Because it's instructive to all of you who want to make your lives matter, live your purpose, master something, change some unjust political structure, live on fire and on purpose. You have to know that it's going to cost you some sweat.
It wasn't that I couldn't work hard, I had just learned how not to. Nothing great ever comes out of that posture because it's reactive, not creative.
Recently, economists discovered a dip in life satisfaction for people between the ages of 45-50. It's reliable and statistically obvious and even appears even when contributing factors like unemployment or divorce are removed. It shows across cultures and even across species.
It's called The Happiness Curve and Jonathan Rausch wrote a book about it.
So I get why people buy sports cars and have affairs rather than dwell in this weird middle place. Who wants to deal with deconstructing everything? It’s a hassle, and the pain of doing it is likely only surpassed by the pain of not doing it.
Isn’t God so gracious to provide an example, in the natural world, of exactly how the process works.
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