A sense of possibility is exactly what makes this season so ripe for building momentum. The pages of the calendar are crisp, and our hearts are full of hope for what might happen next. But let’s be honest, sometimes the future feels more like a giant question mark than a clear path.
How do you know where to go?
Lean Into the Excitement
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” — Doc Brown
The entire plot of Back to the Future hinges on time, and Marty McFly doesn’t have a map or a guide when he’s thrown back into 1955. He’s flying blind, tasked with saving his future while making sure he doesn’t erase his own existence. There’s also no manual for orchestrating your own parents’ love story or outsmarting a bully like Biff.
Marty doesn’t let that stop him. He (with the good aid of Doc) leans into the unknown and tries to trust that each step he takes will get him closer to his goal, restoring his fate. For myself, that means leaning into the unexpected joys of parenthood, business, and the connections that make life richer.
Try Something Different
We don’t need to know every detail of what’s ahead to start building up a good pace. Sometimes, the best thing we can do is take the next step without a clear landing place.
Maybe you do this by trying something new. Explore a restaurant you’ve never been to (my wife and I are big fans of ENZO) or pick up a paintbrush for the first time in a while. Take a spontaneous road trip with no real plan. When we loosen our grip on the familiar, we make room for discovery.
What Does Your DeLorean Need?
The DeLorean needed 88 MPH and a lightning strike to get Marty home. What’s your catalyst? If you aren’t sure, or don’t know where to go from here, go out and look for inspiration or tackle something new. Momentum starts when we stop waiting for the perfect conditions and start moving. The road will reveal itself as we go, if we’re willing to hit the gas.
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Acquired knowledge? Like on Fox News?
I’m concerned that the perpetrators of the truck attack in New Orleans and the exploding Tesla in Las Vegas both had extensive ties to our military. One is even being reported to be an active Green Beret.
I assume that these are outliers, but men who have been trained by our military could be very dangerous given their acquired knowledge.
Is anyone else uneasy about this?
I am!
That commonality between them stuck out immediately, both Army (one active duty and the other a veteran). The New Orleans terrorist was IT and Human Resources while he was in service, but the other is highly trained in special operations. It stuck out to me that a quote was released saying that “the level of sophistication is not what we would expect from an individual with this type of military experience” re the Tesla explosion.
Also, peculiar detail that they both used Turo and rented EV vehicles??
STF while I agree somewhat about your concern over these rogue individuals, I’m more concerned about all the pro-LGBTQ+ junk our military has been pushing, than I am about a couple of outliers. Our military is supposed to be a force for killing, for deterring, and for serving in times of crisis – not a home for mentally challenged individuals undergoing a gender identity crisis (AKA a mental illness).
I am concerned about getting to the REAL story behind these two attacks……we are not being told the full story. There’s got to be more to this that we are being kept in the dark about.
Happy New Year, Wing. I don’t share your concern about LGBTQ individuals either in the military or in the general population. The incidence of non-heterosexual people committing mass violent acts appears to be infinitesimally small, although they are more likely to be the victims of personal violent attacks. I have no idea if they are good soldiers or not.