Sometimes, taking a step back is the best recourse left to find clarity. For me, taking a step back included figuring out what needed to stay and what needed to go, as well as what needed to come to the surface. It also meant being comfortable not knowing, while also being uncomfortable in a holding pattern.

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Life is a strange, strange thing. A person can say something, a variation of a message merely said differently, it may not immediately click. Sure, the message sounds good and it makes sense, but maybe the timing isn't right, or the person isn't ready to hear it. It could be anything.

Well, a husband and wife, who so happened to be the first folks to ever look like me to occupy the highest office in the land for the past eight years, are riding off into the sunset and they have helped inspire me to not just do the best possible, but to be great. Being good, or perceived as good at something, hasn't been good enough for the longest and will definitely never be good enough anymore.