3-2-1: On discarding old commitments, handling disappointments, and how to go from vision to reality

Who are you trying to change? What change are you trying to make? How will you know if it worked? Three simple questions, all easily avoided. We avoid them because purpose has a flip side, and the flip side is failure.

Isn’t that what we’re here to do? To do work we’re proud of. To put ourselves on the hook. To find the contribution we’re capable of. The only way to be on this journey is to begin. But there isn’t a guarantee. In fact, most of what we seek to do will not work. But our intent—the intent of being of service, of making things better, of building some

if you plan to spend some of your four thousand weeks doing what matters most to you, then at some point you’re just going to have to start doing it.