# Chapter 167

It’s travel day again. Weird to be saying that in Coronavirusworld but yet I am saying that. The 4:00 am alarm says it loud and clear. The stress and tension of moving from A to B to C to D today says it. So much can go wrong and might - it has in the past and will in the future. It’s the nature of traveling long distances quickly. But more than anything is the emotional feel of a traveling day. It is the feeling of transitions.

I am leaving this responsibility and exchanging this one for responsibilities elsewhere - all just an inside-world transition while the landscape flies pass at 500 miles per hour transitioning the outside world. Finishing this responsibility well and retaining enthusiasm for the next responsibility is another transition inside. Doing this transition is particularly difficult, because I am sure to leave something important here as I am packing my bags, and putting things away. And putting things away is another whole transition - after almost four years of positioning us to move here to be close to this responsibility - I have cars and bikes and “stuff” everywhere. Now everything has to be gassed up and stored until I come back in three weeks. Try doing that on both ends of a transition 6-8 times a year . . . its a bigger job than you think. And there are mental transitions to go along with the emotional and physical ones - like navigating a city of 12 million versus MooCow GA - just thinking about the contrasts makes my brain hurt.

Its definitely a travel day again. As Seth said this morning, “All forward motion disappoints someone.

If you serve one audience, you’ve let another down. One focus means that something else got ignored. If you create something scarce, someone won’t get their hands on it.

The very act of creation means that it won’t be the ideal solution for everyone.

On the other hand, with certainty, we know that doing nothing disappoints an even larger group of people.

The opportunity is to find someone to delight and to embrace the fact that someone is not everyone.”