Everything We Do Is a Choice

Here is the thread that runs through all of it. Everything we do, from the first blessing of breath each morning, is a choice, and our life is a reflection of those choices. They are not easy choices. Sometimes they feel overwhelming. But they are choices all the same, and no law written anywhere says you have to stay in the job, the relationship, or the version of success that is draining you. The hardest one is refusing to put yourself in a box, because we are taught the opposite. We are taught that following the status quo makes us accepted, safe, successful. My daughter Ema came home from a sports camp recently and told me her coaches said they want to see her stand out, not fit in. That stopped me, because how often do we ignore that exact lesson. We run with the masses when standing in our own originality is the only thing that builds a life that actually feels like us. The cost is real. Slower days, statistics you never meet, parents and peers who may not agree, a driven culture that may never celebrate you the way it celebrates everyone else. But that is what it takes to build the house that is you, and that is where a courageous life is lived.

None of this unfolds when we walk in fear or demand to know what comes next. It unfolds when we surrender to what will be and keep walking toward the dream anyway. If I had kept my grip so tight, kept trying to be who others thought I should be, I would never have stepped into Fostering the Summit. It has required a hundred and fifty percent flip of the person I was, and honestly, if I could have imagined everything it would ask of me, I might have walked the other way. But that is the point. Our biggest dreams, sometimes the ones we did not even know we carried, ask for things we cannot picture yet, and it has rolled out in front of me like a sleeping bag unfurling, all I have to do is keep walking. What keeps me moving is knowing these children deserve someone to dream for them until they can dream for themselves, to hold hope until they trust that hope is even possible. So if you are longing for a life that feels more aligned, more purposeful, more full, I will leave you with the same question I keep asking myself. What can you do today to begin? Because a delicious life does not arrive all at once. It comes in baby steps, like a silver lid lifting off a plate so your senses can finally take it in. We all get to choose it. These children get to choose something different. And we get to be the first rock in the ripple that becomes the wave. Love you, mean it.

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- Corree