The long game

# Chapter 19

It takes courage to take risks, to pursue dreams that may or may not turn out the way that you hope and wish. Designing a life that has meaningful impact on the world you live in, is dastardly difficult, and its risky because if for no other reason it is almost always outside the realm of what is considered normal or typical and that is risky. Courage is necessary to follow a dream rather than a career path. Courage is demanded if your dreams have a long far reach. To get there will take decades perhaps and that kind of courage and bravery is in very short supply. The long game is the rarest form of action that I see in the worlds of dreamers and doers. Everyone seems to have extremely short time frames these days. The instantaneousness of our world, has spilled over into our dream expectations and that can be deadly.

So you and I are gonna need the courage for the long haul, and that might be a higher price than you are mentally calculating right now in your head, because I have been doing the long game for decades and there are few peers remaining. It takes a particular type of certitude to keep your hand steady to the task for year after year after year. Tell me you can do this on a raining dark difficult morning, not when the sun is shining and all things are going perfectly. Convince me that you can face weeks or months of challenging circumstances and continue to plod and progress forward? Ok now convince yourself. Done? Good, lets do this!