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This is episode 20 of the DVP, the Dan Vegas program. It is currently April 24th, 2026, the day before my 29th birthday. And we are all in. I want to live the life that God has for me. I want to live a life fully alive, a life that is witness to being fully alive in Christ. What does that mean? Because that can be really existential, but what does it actually mean? Philippians 4 8. Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable. If there is any excellence and if there's anything worthy of praise, think about these things. A life fully alive is one that is honorable, one that is just, one that is pure, pleasing, commendable, excellent, and worthy of praise. That is what I'm headed towards. That is what I'm committed to. There will always be plenty of jobs that are great, not hating on anyone's job or anyone's work. There will always be opportunities to go back to just doing something for a paycheck. But I will not take some job, take some career, do some work at the cost of my soul. And when I say at the cost of my soul, I mean at the cost of being fully alive, living, breathing, moving in a way that I know and I feel at the center of my heart called to do. And I feel called, I feel convicted to serve people in a way that brings life to them. I feel called and convicted to it's a version of Jim Rohn or Tony Robbins, but the amount of human beings that I see on a daily basis that are so brilliant and capable, yet they walk around asleep, they walk around tired, they walk around not believing in those things that make them who they are, and therefore not believing that they have a life worth living, not believing that it can be any better than the misery that they live in every day. And we're not gonna get into whether that's a choice or the habits or the stories they tell themselves or the emotional scars. We'll just forget about all that right now. I want to do that. I want to serve people, I want to enlighten people, I want to help them unleash, use Tony Robbins' line right now, I want them to help them unleash the power within. I want to call them into agency because living life that way is so much better than just going through it. I want to be a witness to a life fully alive in Christ, and I know that that is going to explode, and I'm gonna be thrown and thrust into situations that I don't know anything about, that I don't understand, and I know I don't understand the fullness of what it is that I'm saying, but I am confident that God will take care of the rest. I know that's what I want to do. I can see it, I can vision it, I can call those people out into action to move, bring some energy into your life. The world needs it, you deserve it. You are created by a creator to be a co-author of the life that you live. That is what we are moving into. There's always gonna be 101 things that you can fall back on, but I can see it and I know it is going to work, and I'm stating it, I'm calling it here, I'm putting it out, we are stepping into it fully, committed to it. And I'm gonna read you what I wrote down in a little journal here. 42426 notes. Giuliano Massarelli, Bailey Zimmerman, Matt Ingold, Mike Dulcio, all of these gentlemen went for it. They had a desire, they had a goal, they had a conviction and a vision. They did not concern them, and they did not concern themselves with the oh no's or the what-ifs or the oh then I'll have to blank. I want it, they said. I want to blow up on social media, I want to be making a million dollars a month, I want to be doing meaningful work, I want to wake up every day on fire for God and for what I do. I want to lead and guide and coach people. And maybe they felt called to it, maybe they didn't, but it is what they wanted and they went for it. And look at all the people they touch, all the lives they impact. It is April 24th, the day before my birthday, my 29th birthday, and I am ready. I am on, I am on, I am on, on for Christ, on for life. Lord, I am ready. I am ready for a new story, I am ready for change, I am ready for life and the things that I want. I am ready to step out, I am ready to love my work, I am ready to be a witness to a life fully alive, and I am for you, and I am ready to pursue and follow and trust the passions and desires you put on my heart. I am ready to trust you and walk, step out into that trust. I am ready to rely on you. I am ready to commit to you, to all the things that I want, to my hopes, to passionate work, to the pursuit of you, to a chosen life, to a life full of agency and dedication and faith. I am ready to dream big, I am ready to dare, I am ready to envision and to think about these scary big goals and dreams. It is as simple as a choice, and I choose yes. Now, I choose a new story, I choose change, I choose for the better. Oh, I I choose I choose a new story, I choose change and change for the better. I choose running boldly into the hopeful and faithful unknown. I choose life, bold life, brilliant life, the fullness of life. I choose the things I want, I choose to step out, I choose to do work I love, I choose to be a witness to life fully alive for you. I choose agency, I choose authorship, I choose to be the man in the arena, I choose the pursuit and chase and hunt of the things that I love and want, the passions and desires you put on my heart. I choose trusting you and stepping out into anything and everything that awaits me. I choose reliance on you. I choose commitment to you. I choose the things that I want, my hopes, to pursuing I choose, I choose whole I choose commitment to you, to the things I want, to my hopes, to pursuing a passionate, purposeful chosen life. I choose to commit to a life full of agency and dedication and faith. I choose to dream big. I choose to dare, I choose to envision and meditate and focus on goals and dreams so big they terrify a timid soul. I choose life and I choose it now. Now, I am that man, I am that Dan. Remember how I think, how I act, how I decide, how I move, what I do not tolerate, what I take immediate action on, and who I allow in my circle. Walk bold, walk confidently. I don't know what this entails, I don't know where this is going, but I know this is what I choose, this is what I am committing to, and so I'm going to share that in whatever capacity. We're gonna transform my social media, we're gonna work some stuff around. I don't know what it's gonna look like, but we're going for it and we're doing it now. We're not half-assing it, excuse my French, we're not going halfway in. We are not halfway committed, we are fully prepared to commit everything to this, and that's ultimately giving it up to God. I'm committing to it and giving the results up to God. I'm committing to the process because I believe that is what He has put on my heart, and that is what I want to do. Thank you, Sunday. She's getting excited too. Energy is infectious, she knows. I am committing to this, I'm going to share it, we're gonna talk about it, I'm gonna document it. Thank you for whatever. April 24th, 2026, the day before my 29th birthday. This is where we are at. This is where we're moving forward from. This is what it is. I freaking love you guys, and I want to record this that way I have it down. We choose now. We choose now.