Veterans Appreciation Month, Day 24
…and together, we go further.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go further, go together.”
I do not know the origins of this African proverb, but it fits my mission.
When I served, my standard operating window was 12-16 hours a day, and more often than not, 7 days a week. The actual OPTEMPO fluctuated and taught me to be liberal with my time, based on those individuals and tasks of most need.
I couldn’t see making a career of such a grind. I wanted to control at least some of my time again.
To have a family.
To stay healthy.
To give back.
This is just a tiny cross-section of the military experience, mind you.
Corporate life sometimes calls for similar rigors, but there’s no way to make direct comparisons. It just isn’t the same.
Possessions are a nice reward, but pleasure seeking and vanity are destructive as a daily practice. True wealth is built by controlling your time, and investing it purposefully.
Money can enhance that, but it is a tool rather than a status symbol.
Then again, if you want to go fast, you can do it alone with money. That’s “freedom”, for some, along with physical treasures.
But the journey is long, so build a tribe.
You are not alone, and are meant to go far.
❤️ Be Kind.
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