7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 27
I spent two hours today digging post holes and pouring concrete for clothesline T-posts in the backyard. My wife wanted clotheslines. So I dug.
That was my exercise today. It wasn’t the gym. It wasn’t a walk with a voice recorder. It was Oklahoma dirt and a post-hole digger and sweat. Some days the challenge looks like a program. Some days it looks like taking care of your home.
I heard a quote today: we only have one life, and when we realize this, why would we not run as hard as we can towards our wildest dreams?
I sat with that for a while. What is my wildest dream?
I expected something ambitious to come out. A revenue target. A bestseller list. A stage. A platform.
What came out was simpler than that.
Take care of my wife. Love my family completely. Be creative every day. Share my faith. Leave a mark on this world that outlasts me.
I’m 163 days into running toward those things. Not perfectly. Not without missed deadlines and slow weeks and days where six out of seven habits was all I had. But running.
Today it looked like post holes and concrete. And that was enough.
David Willis 