A Lesson Everyone Needs to Hear

As I progress in my 20s, I’ve been in motion—training as an athlete, launching side hustles, building skills, chasing opportunity. I’ve tried a lot of things searching for my thing. And while I’ve grown from all of it, there was a recent conversation that gave me clarity I wanted to share.

A mentor asked me, “Why do you want what you want in life?”

I gave him the best 5-minute answer I could—passionate, clear, confident.

He looked at me and said:

“That’s not even close to specific enough.”

That hit hard.

Because he was right.

You don’t build something great off of vague ambition. You need a blueprint. A target. A level of detail that most people are too distracted—or scared—to ever define. It’s how I’ve hit every goal in the past.

So here’s my challenge to you (and myself as well):

Block off a full day this weekend. No distractions. No to-do list. Just you and a notebook (I’ll be doing the same this weekend. Much more to map out!).

Write out your goals month by month, year over year. Get granular. Visualize what you want, who you want to become, and how you’ll get there.

Because if you don’t know exactly what you’re working toward, you’ll never do what it takes to get there.