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Robin Sharma suggests that you can either allow yourself to be distracted or do incredible things, but not both. Life involves trade-offs, and every decision you make brings you closer to or holds you back from your goals. When things get complex, simplicity is key to staying focused on what's necessary. It's important to know your North Star and make decisions that align with it. Without knowing what matters to you, everything becomes meaningless. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice realizes that it doesn't matter which way she goes if she doesn't know where she wants to go. You can allow yourself to be distracted, or as Robin Sharma suggests, you can do incredible things, can't do both. You can stay where the safety and security is, or you can risk what you have in pursuit of your dreams, but you can't do both, you can remain the character depicted in yesterday's story. Or you can take those lessons, experiences, and craft a new story, but you cannot do both. Life is a game of trade-offs, where any decision to go in one direction is a simultaneous decision to not go in another, a commitment to she's necessarily our objection of why at least in that moment. Making this question all the more important, what is your North Star ask? Because everything you do is bringing you closer to or holding you back from capturing it. One of my lifelines over the years has been clinging to the quote or idea that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication consistently trying to arrive there. Why? Because when things get complex in my life, I don't know what I'm choosing. Clutter means I've lost sight of what's necessary versus what's trivial. I become unclear on those critical trade-offs I'm making, and we've all experienced this, right? The simplest questions are always the hardest to arrive, that we can't talk in circles about the details, but how often are we honest with ourselves about the why? I remember job interviews in college going on and on about the books. I read the papers I'd written current events, but then falling flat on my face when asked so. Who's Eddie Pinero had dudes interviewing, like, what do you want from me? My brain had never gone there, or even less formal. I'll never forget a friend of mine a few years back asked me what my perfect day was, just casually as we were driving, I said, I don't know, Tom. I've never really thought about that it goes. Then how are you ever supposed to have a perfect day if you don't know? And how simple and simultaneously and critty. Blue how on to lift without perfect days, right? Like, what is all this for? The world is infinite, and its variability can rule you and its complexity. You can run around adhering to all its rules, hopping you're doing the right thing, whatever that is, or you can identify, carve out, and rule over your own little piece of it, your own kingdom. You can choose you if you take the time, Tom, cover who you are, what lights you up, and then as Emerson advocate shits your wagon to that start, the best investment of our time is to truly understand and decide what we should be saying yes to be. Because if we don't know what matters, then nothing does. Here's the famous dialogue from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Alice, would you tell me, please, which way? I ought to go from here. That depends a good deal on where you want to get. To said the cat, well, I don't much care where said Alice, then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the cat, well, so long as I get somewhere, Alice added as an explanation. Oh, you're sure to do that, said the cat, only you walk long enough, beautiful passage.