Oh there is no one correct answer. But just as there are many right answers, many answers are equally wrong… just plain wrong.

Or we can just sleep in.

You might already be where you want to go.

Change your attitude. It’s not going to be easy and you can’t have it all.

Make decisions. Not only about where you want to go, but what in your life is not going to get you there.

Next you change your habits. You have 5 minutes, that’s it. Do something meaningful, that pushes you forward.

Get outside your comfort zone. You have a routine. Break it. Only then can you start taking your life in a different direction.

Feel the fear and do it anyway. If it won’t kill you, do it. Talk to that person, ask for that job, take that chance.

Your dream is achievable, but not while you have 16 other dreams. You can’t dream of having it easy and be a rock star. You can’t dream of catching every episode of the Walking Dead and be a sports journalist.

Then, I missed a day of Code Academy. At the time I had 23 days in a row.

When you’re in a groove, the decision isn’t hard, you just keep going. You have 23 days in a row, doing one more is a no-brainer.

When you miss a day all of a sudden you have two options. Do I start with a 1 day streak or extend my inactive streak to 2 days.

We start many things in our lives. Some are well thought out and planned. Some are well supported by family and friends.

At some point after all the stopping and starting, you need to make a decision. When will you exercise resolve? When do you say, ‘I stopped, but this matters, I’m going to keep going?’

It’s a big question. More often than not one that I’m afraid of, and so are you.

Every time I keep going, I feel my resolve growing and my fear shrinking.

Increasing my resolve makes me think I have it in me to accomplish something great.

It’s only Code Academy. But it’s something more. It’s Grabbing life by the Horns.

I now have a 4 day streak. Or 27 of 28 days in a row.

As usual, there is no formula. If you want to be involved, you need to figure out the steps yourself.

OOO, how tempting that is. It’s alluring to think we can do that to. My mind starts racing thinking of the possibilities. I think of how I might get there. I think of what I could do to get there. I think I could get there. I believe it.

Then I think, I love my life. I don’t make 1/10th of what that person makes. I work 10x more than that person. My life is probably a less secure than that person. But it is going to be hard for him to be as happy as I am.

We glorify the success stories. The millionaires and superstars. It’s great. It’s something to strive for, and some of us might get it. But don’t let it delude you into thinking being a superstar is the key to an easy life. Examples abound of superstars who have trouble. Actors and athletes are two very obvious bunches. But we also know the local business owner who is mad at the world. We know the entrepreneur who is a complete jerk to everyone. We see the CEO, who is divorced and has a face like a red balloon because of all the stress.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t try to be more. Or that we should keep at our shitty job because the alternative may be just as shitty. I’m saying don’t beat yourself up because you don’t have the life someone else has.

If you want, change it. Quit your job take a chance if you have the opportunity. Or stay at your job and start pushing outside your comfort zone at work. Or keep your job and conserve your energy for an after-work venture. Or keep your job and save your energy for that nice girl you pass each day. The possibilities are endless. But maybe change isn’t what you need. Maybe you need to be more content with your situation and realize what a great gig you have.

Don’t get caught up in someone else’s life. Live yours. Be proactive and change if you feel the need to change. But maybe the only thing that needs changing is your attitude.