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Your trajectory isn't accidental—it's the sum of choices you make every single day. Yet most people drift through these decisions unconsciously, letting circumstances and other people dictate their path. It’s easy to fall into that habit, but then they wake up years later wondering why they're not where they wanted to be.
It can seem easier to flow along with the course of what life seems to give you, and it seems that others are doing just that—but if you don’t take the wheel, you end up where everyone else is going. It’s a crowded, mediocre door, and you end up sacrificing a phenomenal future for it.
The question isn't whether you'll make trade-offs…you already are. The question is whether you're making them intentionally, and if they’re serving you.
Let's strip away the easy questions and make some intentional decisions around the trade-offs you make, or will have to make, to get where you want to go. Dig deep, get honest, and really challenge yourself to pause and think as you walk through these trade-offs one by one…each will have a decision point for you to consider.
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