Shark Theory

NASCAR driver Ross Chastain was in 10th place with two turns left. He needed to move up two spots or his season was over.

He told his team over the radio: I am putting my foot on the pedal and I am not letting go until I see God or a checkered flag.

He pressed it. Hit the wall. Rode it around the outside like a video game. Moved up five spots.

Nobody had ever done it. Because nobody had ever wanted it that badly.

How bad do you really want yours?

Confidence is not a feeling. It is a reliance on yourself.

And here is the proof: you have made it through 100% of everything you have ever faced.

Every impossible situation. Every moment you thought would break you. You are still here.

The feeling comes and goes. The evidence does not.

Stop waiting to feel confident. Start trusting the track record.

Every fish we caught at Lake Texoma was in the shallow water. Not the 80-foot depths. The 15-foot spots right in the middle of the lake.

We always think we need to go deeper. Learn more. Search further.

But a lot of the opportunities you are looking for are right in your immediate circle. Right next to the boat.

Start telling people what you do. You will be surprised who has been waiting to hear it.

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Searching for your purpose might be the very thing keeping you from living it.

Because every time you say “I am still searching,” what you are really saying is: I will start when I have more clarity.

And clarity does not come before the action. It comes because of it.

Stop searching for your purpose. Start being intentional about today.

Plant bamboo and fern at the same time. In 60 days the fern is already visible. The bamboo shows nothing for five years.

Then in weeks it shoots up 90 feet.

It was not growing in year five. It was growing for five years underground — building roots capable of holding something that tall.

You are not behind. You are growing roots nobody can see yet.