Achievement is not about ‘doing something.’ Rather, it’s about ‘being someone.

The 'goal' is the journey done well.

However far I’ve come, it’s probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.

Sometimes answering the question of where we’re at in life is best approached by asking where we’re not, because there’s a good chance that that’s where we had original intended to be.

To make the ‘shadow’ the tree is to try and climb something that’s always flat and constantly moving. However, it’s something from which we’ll never fall. And maybe that’s why we live in the shadow of dreams rather than living out our lives actually climbing one.

Tell me it can’t be done and I’m likely to take a shot at it. And that’s not based on arrogance or some inflated sense of grandiose superiority. Rather, it’s based on a God Who says that the impossible is nothing more than surrender in disguise and defeat that was a victory on the way before I got in the way.

What have I accomplished other than staying alive long enough to ask what I’ve accomplished. But is that, in fact, not an accomplishment?

Winning is based on the definition that we have assigned to ‘winning.’ And if we look at most of our definitions, we’ve rarely won anything.

The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.