After a car accident sparked an existential crisis, the speaker reflects on life transitions like empty nest and job changes. Progress isn't just momentum toward goals, but also satisfaction and becoming who you're meant to be.
I was in an accident, car accident. That kind of hit me hard enough in the head to realize, I don't want to die. I just don't know how to live. And some of us at different parts of our life, we have to go. I don't really know how to live life anymore. Because maybe you are living life at that moment just to be the parent and the kids leave the house, and you're like, I don't know what to do with myself. Or you move to a new city and you don't know even how to network and talk with other people. Or you. You, like, change jobs and you find, like, this weird new personality coming out at work. You're like, who am I? We don't really get an owner's manual of how to step into new situations in our life and turn back on progress in our life when we need to change. Not all change is progress. Not all activity is progress. Progress is momentum toward goals that we want and that sense of satisfaction with the speed that we are traveling in and the character of who you are becoming. And when we understand that, things shift. You have a direction to go, but you have someone to become.
