Brian Johnson on knowing when to push through a goal or let it go. He describes the pattern where initial excitement fades, then you have to decide: is it fear talking, or genuine intuition that you're done? Sometimes doubling down unlocks the next level. Sometimes you need permission to want something else.
Oftentimes you're going through your life and you're super fired up, right? And you're just all in. Whether it's soccer or for me, it's been different creative endeavors and businesses. But you get to a point where you're like, you know what? I fulfilled that part of my heroic quest in that regard, in that mission. And you kind of wake up and you're like, wow, what was it about that that was so exciting? Because continuing to do that feels like it's lost all of the juice that it had before. And that's a natural, healthy part of our evol. And again, you want to tease apart the fear, the laziness with the deep intuition of, no, it's actually not what I feel called to do. Well, now's the time to double down and go for it if you really want to get to the next level. Or it might be a. It doesn't feel like what I'm here to do. And it's exciting to imagine you saying, well, what do I really want? And then giving yourself the freedom to ask that question. Don't expect clarity on the first pass.
