well-trod paths of others

• too many of us spend years, even decades, in pursuit of someone else’s plan for our one precious life … a gap in our lives between where we find ourselves and the life we actually want to be living
• I found myself at one of life’s crossroads, the “safe” path leading in one direction, uncertainty—and possibility—in the other. … Eventually I came to realize that a calling is just that: a whisper (of intuition) in the distance … a calling is an intuitive hint, a tug we experience when we’re doing something that feels right
• to show up in the best way we can
• autonomous system that supports alignment
  
• work on one person myself

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1. admire the lives of others

   if we but knew what drove, hounded, and compelled those whom we admire, we might truly not want to live their lives after all. few of us realize