# Chapter 76

There are many detours on our journeys, but they all begin with the first step. You have to decide where you are going and take the first step, get moving, start, or you will never finish. And then you have to keep on walking and traveling. There will be fires and competitions and long motorcycle rides and epic moments and dastardly depressions and graveside moments and junkyard days and folks I have just described THIS WEEK! Life is sorta just like one big detour for most of us it seems. There is so much going on and so many outside factors coming into play changing the song and dance of our lives that we can’t anticipate or ignore.

That means that you have to buckle down and focus twice as intensely and make sure your steps are moving in the right direction. That your second step follows your first, and all your steps end in the place you wish for them to be, even with all the detours distractions and desires that wish to derail you from your destination. How much do you want to arrive? It all begins with that first step, probably the most difficult step of all, but there will be plenty of challenges along the way. Its called life and you just have to live it. Ride those peaks and valleys with patience and aplomb and you will do fine.