It’s cold tonight. Brady and I instinctively run into the nearest bar. Unremarkable music softly sputters in the background. My eyes lock onto a couple of red-headed Irish girls sitting at the center table.
“Let’s go,” Brady says assuredly.
House of Dreams, part 1 – Lightning Strikes Thrice
“That’s the last of it,” he announces as he slams the trunk shut on his burgundy station wagon. I linger for a minute watching the car drive away into the yellow-gray haze of street lamps and porch lights.
“That’s the last of it,” I sigh, as I look up into the night sky. Dark clouds begin to approach tellingly from the distance. I better go inside.
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I hope by now you have decided on a mission. Whether it be to expose abuses of power or to save the rain forest, you must be on your purpose. No purpose is any less than any other purpose, but you must have one. You can always change paths later on if the one you’re walking is not right for you, but it is imperative that you start on a path as soon as possible.
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If it were easy, you wouldn’t dream about it in the first place and everyone else would already have it. But you are not everyone. You are different. We may not know each other, but the fact that you’re reading this right now means you are the kind of person who won’t settle. You can always stop your journey whenever you want. It’s very easy… but you want more, don’t you.
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Most people operate in 1 of 2 modes their entire lives. The first is to be results-oriented. In this mode, people impatiently pine for quick rewards. Some give up as soon as the going gets tough; we call those quitters. Others stress and obsess in short bursts of activity, hoping to god that they figure it out before their willpower runs dry; we call those strivers. Those with a results orientation often lack inner peace because no matter what they have achieved, they never feel like they are enough.
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