I hope you have a vision of life that…

I hope you have a vision of life that will sustain you in the moments on the pavement. There will likely be a day when the world stops and your heart breaks and you will need a vision of a life worth living that can survive the storm. Surely, your vision will be deepened, trans-formed, sharpened by the days on the pavement, but I hope your vision already has a compass that can orient you or, better yet, an anchor that will hold you.

— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

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Steve Jobs gave the young the truest encouragement I know — when you grow up you are told the world is fixed and you must simply live inside it, but that is a lie; the whole world around you was built by people no smarter than you, and you can change it. Vision, as Myles Munroe put it, is simply the capacity to see beyond what your eyes can presently see — and a sturdy vision of a life worth living is precisely what will sustain you in the lonely moments down on the pavement, when the flying gets hard. Three things make up a real vision: an honest intention, a clear picture of where you mean to arrive, and the expectation that pulls you toward it. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

Acceptance is part of it — and acceptance does not mean you have to like what happened or justify it; it only means deciding you can live with it, and then turning your attention to what you can still control. Build your anchor before the storm: a vision of a life worth living, already on board, that can hold you the day your heart breaks. And do not try to weather everything alone — lean on scaffolding, the foothold offered by people with real experience of what you are facing; it is meant to be temporary, a boost, not a lifetime of leaning. […] Don't make failure plan A. Stay fully committed to the climb — while keeping the honesty to tell a wise change of course from a defeat. Build the muscle. Face reality, search for meaning, and improvise; keep an anchor aboard before the storm; and lean on the scaffolding of people who have been there. Stay adaptable. It is the adaptable who survive; shift to neutral and find the next step when you're stuck. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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