Eddie Pinero

A lot?

How about enough to go all in?

Because if you want to see levels of yourself you never thought possible, you need to kick the ladder down behind you.

Force yourself to rise to the occasion amidst the chaos.

Map your path straight into the darkness of night.

Not because it's the most convenient, but because you gave yourself no other choice.

You burned the boats and are content to watch their flames slowly disappear behind you as you go where few have gone.

If there's time, then there's time to turn things around.

If there is a tomorrow, then there is hope today.

The only have-to-be's in life are the ones we prop up and adhere to.

And how interesting that oftentimes we don't even realize we're the ones holding them up.

There's a simple question that I like to ask as the sun comes up and the coffee brews.

Am I living today like it's an obligation or something more?

Is it an automatic continuation of the past or a methodical move towards a future that lights me up?

And these aren't small distinctions, right?

I've lived both ways.

I've felt what it's like to feel both.

I remember going to work and joking around that a flat tire would be a real treat.

That's not accountability.

That's not control over