Where's Your First Track?

Hey all,

Merry late Christmas! I'm up in the mountains in California - a much-needed (whether I knew it or not) escape to nature for some reflection time. The last couple weeks have been filled with an excitement for the new year, and all of the things I want to do with this newsletter, Youtube channel, etc.

While the excitement is good, and imagining what could be long-term can be invigorating, I also find it tends to stress me out. Gets me thinking and planning to a point where it no longer serves me. I'm reading a book now called The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life. It's written by a half-lion-tracker half-life-coach. Pretty good stuff.

One of the points he made in the last chapter is the emphasis on what he calls, "The first track". The first track might be the first paw prints, the first brush against a tree, or any other small inkling of a trace that there was an animal there.

That's where you start.

You have no idea where the track will take you, it probably won't be where you expected, but none of that matters. All that matters is you follow the first track. Take the first step.

As one of my favorite lines so far says, "I don't know where I'm going, but I know exactly how I'll get there". This is a little message to myself and anyone else out there who might be over-thinking and getting too caught up in the long-term.

Take a breath, evaluate what the immediate next step you can take today is, and take it. The rest will figure itself out. If you knew the ending, it wouldn't be much of a journey, anyways, would it?

Hope you all have an amazing New Year's!

See you next week,

Ryan