The hardest part of growth?

It’s not getting better.
It’s letting go of who you had to be to get there.

Because when you hit a high, a personal best, a defining win, a version of you that shines,
you don’t just celebrate it.

You start building your identity around it.

You stop seeing it as something you achieved,
and start thinking it’s the only version of you that matters.

So you spend your energy trying to recreate it.
Match it.
Repeat it.
On demand, in every room, in every season.

But what if the goal isn’t to repeat your best?
What if it’s to outgrow it?

Because the version of you that crushed it back then?
That version was powerful.
But so is the one that’s learning, shifting, and rebuilding right now.

Excellence isn’t about going back.
It’s about knowing how to move forward, differently.
With wisdom.
With an edge.

You haven't fallen off.
You’re leveling up.

And the next version of you?
Doesn’t need to prove anything.
You just need to rise.

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