I wish for things.

I want for things.

And, I spend a lot of time, thinking about the things, the goals I want to achieve.

How often do I ask myself,

AM I WILLING to do what it takes to achieve those things?

Because when I go there, it changes the conversation in my head from...

Why haven't I achieved them?

And, importantly, how committed am I truly to those things?

From the very meaningful to the extremely tactical...

I want to play golf better... I don't know why, but I do.

I want to be leaner and stronger... there is no substitute to that feeling.

I want to create wealth for my family...

I want to get my company to a more stable, more strategic, more deliberate place of growth...

I want to resolve issues that I see in various parts of the company...

I want to help create a nationwide competition for students to inspire them to think about business in a positive light...

I want to be a present father...

I want to be a devoted husband...

I want to spend time with friends...

I want to be true to myself, to my passion, to what I believe matters...

AM I WILLING TO DO what it takes to do those things, AND

I can do anything, but I can't do everything.

HERE is the KICKER...

THE TRUTH IS...

When I ask, AM I WILLING TO DO WHAT IT TAKES, I am really asking,

AM I WILLING TO NOT DO CERTAIN THINGS TO ACHIEVE THE OTHERS...

OUCH...

Now the question gets more real...

To accomplish what I want to accomplish truly requires TRADE-OFFS...

Trade-offs of focus, of time...

I agree there is some opportunity for synergy "do what you love" and you start to overlap some of the goals, but it is naive, I believe, to expect that there are no trade-offs.

What are the trade-offs? Am I clear?

To create wealth, how much do I need to pull focus from my family and my time as a father and husband?

To create meaning, how much am I willing to compromise time in trying to create wealth?

To create a leaner and stronger me, how much am I willing to compromise golf ;-) - and, if I do both, then it puts that devoted husband thing at risk ;-) heck, just within getting stronger - I want to do 10 pull ups, I want to run a 6 minute mile, I want do do Yoga, I want to swim, I want to bike, I want to run, I want to lift, I want to work on core... this conversation exists on all levels.

As consumed as I am with trying to understand what I need to do to achieve the things that I have in life... to live the life that I want to live...