The “why” of pursuing excellence is a mystery

"I want to do it because I want to do it."

~Amelia Earhart before her solo flight across the Atlantic ocean.

"There is no why. When I see a place I can put my wire I can not resist."

~Phillipe Petit when asked about his high wire walk between the Twin Towers directly after his accomplishment.

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The greatest journeys are not only physical accomplishments, or mental pursuits, they are also aesthetic and spiritual.

The “why” of pursuing excellence is a mystery.

It’s a calling to discover the essence of something out there, as well as something within. In the end, what we discover and touch is there for but a brief moment as we lift our gaze to see a vast unfolding of something more to learn, or something deeper to connect with or something more magnificent to live into.

Our ceiling becomes our floor.

Our best becomes our baseline.

We simultaneously integrate a high level of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual understanding that becomes our foundation and our expression, while also joyously seeing that we also know nothing and are nothing.

We smile at it all, inhale a breath.

With a gleam in our eye, and a knowing of the heartbreak, frustration, sadness, agony, doubt AND love, success, joy, fullness, confidence, laughter that comes with reaching for the stars and giving our all, and wanting to give it well, dig back into ourselves and take the next step on our journey.