November 27, 2025 • 15 mins
What if the thing that's exhausting you is actually the life you once begged the universe for?
What if your tiredness isn't evidence of failure, but proof that you're living a life that asks something of you?
In this solo episode, Miles Adcox shares a message that unexpectedly resonated with millions. But before unpacking why this landed so deeply, he tells a story that changed his entire perspective on gratitude, loss, and what we choose to focus on.
Miles opens up about the tension between being tired and being grateful, between feeling overwhelmed by the life you built and remembering you once dreamed about having it. He reveals why so much of the advice we hear about rest and unplugging can feel idealistic when you're in the thick of raising kids, leading teams, or building something from nothing. This isn't about glorifying burnout or romanticizing exhaustion. It's about learning to hold two truths at once: you can be stretched and still be exactly where you're supposed to be.
Miles goes deep into the concept of reframing, explaining how shifting the way we interpret our experience changes how our brain and body hold it. He shares the psychological principle that "gratitude without honesty is denial, but honesty without gratitude is despair."
This conversation will help you see that not everything stretching you is breaking you; sometimes it's growing you.
In this conversation, you'll learn:
- How to distinguish between exhaustion that drains you and exhaustion that sustains you
- How a brown dead spot in a yard became a prized possession and shifted everything
- How to reframe "I have to" into "I get to" without denying the weight you're carrying
- How psychological reframing changes the way your brain and body hold stress
- How to hold both tiredness and gratitude without falling into denial or despair
- How to recognize if your overwhelm is evidence of purpose, not failure
- How the life you dreamed about still asks something of you (and why that's not a problem)
- How to notice whether you're the victim of your momentum or the author of it
- How to find dignity in your fatigue by asking one simple question
- How to practice honesty and gratitude at the same time without choosing just one
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What We Discuss:
00:00:00:00 Intro - Welcome to Human School
00:00:30 Miles's Introduction
00:01:35 The story of Dakota
00:09:00 How subtle perspective shifts get our attention
00:11:04 Why advice to "slow down" can feel idealistic
00:13:27 The psychology of reframing: how shifting interpretation changes everything
00:14:35 The art is learning to hold both
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(00:00):
We've been taught everything except how to be human.
Welcome to human school, where remarkable people turn raw,
unfiltered experience into practical wisdom.
I'm Miles Adcox, and this podcast was born from the belief
that you don't graduate from being human, you just get more
honest about the lessons. If you're ready to stop
(00:21):
performing your life and start participating in it, you're in
the right place. This is human School where we
finally learn what matters most.Hey everybody, and welcome back
to Human School. Today's going to be a little
different. It's no guest, just me and you.
Recently, I shared something that turned out to be way more
(00:43):
relatable and encouraging than Iever could have anticipated.
And ever since, I've been askingmyself the question, why?
Why did this message land so deeply?
So today I want to unpack it with you because I think it's
pointing to something a lot of us seem to be feeling right now.
Here's the message. What a privilege to be tired
(01:05):
from the work you once begged the universe for.
What a privilege to feel overwhelmed by growth you used
to dream about. What a privilege to be
challenged by a life you createdon purpose, And what a privilege
to outgrow things used to settlefor.
(01:26):
Now I want to pause for a momenthere and share a story that is
both meaningful to me, and it's one that I believe sets the tone
for what I'd like to touch on next about this message I just
shared. A few years ago, I lost one of
the best friends I've ever had. It was way harder on me than I
initially anticipated. Her name was Dakota and she was
(01:50):
an Australian Cattle Dog. Many of you may know that that
breed is a blue healer and I hadher since I could put her in the
palm of my hand and we spent every day together, moment by
moment together for close to 14 years.
She was with me through a whole lot of life and a whole lot of
seasons, especially the one in which I was building on site.
(02:13):
And there were a lot of ups and downs in those years.
One thing that was always steadyand reliable is no matter where
I went on that campus, no matterwhere I went in the world, she
was right on my heel. Every door I went into, she'd
sit and wait without any training at all, She'd sit and
wait on me to come out the otherside.
(02:35):
And as she started to age and get a little older, it became
more difficult for her to come with me places.
So she ended up staying at home and even when I would come home
and drive in our driveway, she could hear and feel my truck
coming in the driveway and she was always waiting for me when I
walked in the door. And as many of you dog lovers
(02:57):
know, there's no better greeting.
And when I would walk in my home, she would literally fall
at me step by step everywhere I went.
Sometimes I still hear her paw prints on the hardwood floors
walking behind me, but I lost her during an interesting
season. It was in the middle of the
pandemic a few years ago, and itwas a a season of uncertainty
(03:20):
where we didn't really know a lot, but we were getting fed a
lot of information that had us at home.
And I was pretty nervous. I had to shut down elements of
my business and put them on hold.
And I was like a lot of it stressed and trying to figure it
out. And one of the things I did from
being home more than usual was Istarted to really notice my home
(03:41):
environment. Now I'm a, a big outdoor guy, so
I I spend more time outside spaces that I live in than I do
inside. And I started to notice my yard.
I started to notice my landscaping.
And I don't know if you saw this, but the stock for Home
Depot and some of the other places where you can invest in
landscaping and making your yards beautiful skyrocketed
(04:02):
during the pandemic. I think a lot of us probably
started noticing things we just hadn't had time to notice and we
wanted to spend time trying to put some beauty into the spaces
that we call home. I certainly was one of those,
but I had two things going on. One, I was excited to go
irrigate my yard and put some new side in and and put some
landscaping and things I just hadn't made time to do in the
years previous. I also was dealing with a
(04:25):
business that was pretty flat from a revenue standpoint and I
was trying to keep all my folks employed.
So I had both things going on. I felt a little guilty for
spending the money, but I workedhard and so I did it.
And I felt guilty until the moment I walked out the front
door for the first time. When it was done, and I'll never
forget, it was kind of one of those Clark Griswold Christmas
(04:48):
vacation moments where the drum roll and the lights came on and
it was just beautiful. Everything was perfect,
everything was in place. The yard look stunning and I was
thrilled with it. This was right around the time
that my aging dog started to getsick and Dakota started to lose
(05:08):
her vision and she started to lose her hearing and it was
getting pretty difficult. I was having to be pretty hands
on with her around the clock with her care.
And we had this routine that we'd had for years.
But it became ever more important for me to accompany
her on this routine in her finaldays, which was I would walk her
to the front door and try to kind of guide her out into the
(05:30):
yard so she can go to the bathroom in the mornings.
And we would do that every morning around 6:30 AM.
And this morning was with our new yard.
And one thing I didn't know was that new yards, especially sod
and dog peed are not a good VIX.So after about 3 days of her
going out to the same spot in the yard, my beautiful yard
(05:54):
suddenly had this dead brown spot.
And ironically, it was in the most prominent visible spot in
the whole property. You couldn't miss it.
It was what you would see if youwere driving by.
It was what I saw every morning when I walked out the door.
It's what a guest would see if they walked in the sidewalk to
the front door. So this landscape, this kind of
masterpiece I thought I had created, Suddenly all I could
(06:16):
see was this brown spot, which ironically, she didn't have that
good of a name. So it got a little bigger.
It ended up being like a 5 by 5 or maybe a 7 foot by 7 foot big
dead spot in the most prominent part of the yard.
As you can imagine, I got prettyfrustrated by that.
I was I just spent this this money and everything looked
great and suddenly I couldn't see the beauty anymore.
(06:37):
All I saw was the brown spot. It was the I was hyper focused
on it. I was kind of like a a Buzzard
that was flying over hundreds ofacres of beautiful green grass
and flowers and all I could see was the one dead riding carcass
and I couldn't do anything but circle it.
So our morning routine got a little contentious there towards
the end. And when she would go out, I
(07:00):
would try to drag her over. I would get on tour.
The first thing I would do is say, Dakota, no, don't do that.
I try to drag her over and teachher to go in the mulch.
And she was old and I don't think she cared much.
She was probably looking at me like, look, buddy, you go 10
feet from your bed, it's pretty convenient.
So this is where I'm going to go.
But there wasn't much I could do.
(07:21):
About a week into that experience, with me being
frustrated with her going in theyard, being dead, we had our
final day together. She took a downward turn.
And I'll never forget, I loaded up in the car.
We went and did some of her favorite things.
We took a last truck ride and I took her to Outback and got her
(07:43):
a filet and she got to eat that.I took her to Starbucks and got
a pup cup and she got to eat that.
And then we made it back home and the vet came over and I had
to say goodbye to my friend. And I got to tell you the next
morning changed my life because I, I, I woke up at 6:30 and I
went out in the front yard without my best friend.
(08:09):
And suddenly that brown dead spot that I was frustrated at
and I didn't want to see, I wentand stood in the middle of it.
And it ended up becoming my prized possession because all I
could think about was if I couldget another day with her, I
think I'd just kill the whole yard.
And sometimes it's those subtle perspective shifts that get our
(08:30):
attention. It's often the thing that sits
just underneath the surface thatwe're not proud of and that me
maybe don't want people to see that.
If we shift the way we look at it, maybe it ends up becoming
the thing that we most long for.It's the unpretty parts of us
and the things that we often perceive are not worth talking
(08:53):
about or allowing people to see that once they're gone, we end
up valuing the most. That helped me that day begin to
shift my perspective in a lot ofgood ways.
And now I find myself when I'm stressed and tired and
overwhelmed and I have a, a different way of looking at
that. And if I turn it on its head,
(09:15):
often I feel like some of the things that overwhelm me and
stress me, I feel quite privileged to be able to have.
And some of the things that I, Icomplained about now and tell
you were really hard, like building a business or building
a relationship or sustaining a marriage.
I look back at some of those years, the early years of
parenting, and boy, I miss them.So I think right now many of us
(09:39):
are tired, and not necessarily because life is bad, it's
because life is full. It's full of schedules and full
of kids and full of deadlines and relationships and projects
and expectations. And when you're in it, when
you're juggling it all, it's easy to forget that at some
(10:01):
point, we ask for this. We chased it, we hoped for it,
we even built it. And now that it's here, it
doesn't always feel like we imagined it would.
Sometimes the very thing we prayed for becomes the thing we
feel buried under. Now, I want to be clear.
(10:21):
I know some of us are tired. Not because of what we pursued,
but because life has handed us circumstances we never would
have chosen. Some of you are carrying things
you didn't sign up for, like caring for someone who's sick,
working multiple jobs to make ends meet.
That's a different kind of tired, and it deserves its own
compassion. But what I'm referring to is a
(10:42):
lot of the advice we hear when we're overwhelmed is good
advice. Slow down, unplug, take breaks,
reset, go off the grid, simplify.
I've said a lot of those things,and I really believe in them.
I run an organization that helpspeople ground themselves in
learning to create a rested presence and become more
(11:03):
connected to who they are and how they're becoming.
And a lot of the things we prescribe are the very things I
just mentioned. But if I'm honest, for a lot of
people, people raising kids and leading teams, building
something from nothing, caring for a a sick parent, those
suggestions don't feel realistic.
They often feel idealistic, and sometimes that only makes us
(11:26):
feel worse, like we're failing twice.
I'm exhausted and I can't even get the rest part right.
So instead of starting with stop, maybe we should start with
look. Look at what's making us tired.
Is it stress or is it growth? Is it chaos or is it capacity?
(11:48):
Is it heaviness or is it evidence of your purpose?
Is it the burden or is it the blessing?
Because when we remember that wehelped create this, that we
dreamed about living a life thatasked something of us, it shifts
our experience and we can move from feeling like a victim of
our own momentum to remembering that at one point we were the
(12:09):
author of it. Exhaustion without meaning
drains us. Exhaustion with meaning can
sustain us. There was a season not too long
ago when I looked at my calendar, my schedule, my
responsibilities, and I even said out loud, I feel like I'm
drowning some days. Someone really close to me said,
(12:30):
Miles, remember when this exact calendar was your dream?
And it hit me. I'm tired, yes, but I'm tired
because I'm living the life I once hoped would happen.
That doesn't mean I don't need rest.
Structure, boundaries, all of that still matters.
But it does mean I need perspective, because when the
(12:51):
story changes, the way I carry it also changes.
This is not at all to glorify burnout.
I'm not romanticizing exhaustion.
I'm just saying I think we can hold both a little differently.
We can be tired and grateful. We can be overwhelmed and proud.
We can be stretched and still know we're right where we're
(13:12):
supposed to be. And we can outgrow things and
still honor who we were when we chose them.
Psychologically, this is called reframing.
Shifting How we interpret our experience changes how our brain
and our bodies hold it. I'm drowning becomes I'm
expanding. I can't keep up becomes I'm
growing beyond my previous capacity.
(13:34):
And when I'm tired, I remind myself, what a privilege.
So here's the invitation as we head into a week that for many
of us, is about gratitude and Thanksgiving.
What are you tired of, and couldthat tiredness be evidence of
something you once dreamed about?
Maybe instead of saying I have to, we start saying I get to.
(13:58):
I get to show up for these kids.I get to lead this team.
I get to build what I used to just talk about in conversation.
I get to fight for what matters,and I get to be entrusted with
things I once wondered if I'd even be capable of.
I still do. So it's not.
Instead of rest, it's before it.Because gratitude without
(14:19):
honesty is denial, but honesty without gratitude is despair.
I want to say that again. Gratitude without honesty is
denial, but honesty without gratitude is despair.
The art is learning to hold both.
So if you're listening today andyou're tired, before you try to
(14:40):
fix it, just notice it, honor it, and then gently ask
yourself, is this tiredness of receipt for a life I chose?
And if the answer is yes, even just for today, maybe whisper to
yourself, what a privilege. Because naming that doesn't
erase the fatigue, but it does restore some dignity.
(15:01):
It reminds us that even the lifewe dreamed of still ask
something of us. And that is not failure.
That's human school. Thank you for being here.
I hope this lands at justice, the right moment for you, and if
it does, please share it with someone who might need the
reminder. And not everything that
(15:21):
stretches you is breaking you. Sometimes it's growing you.
I'll see you next time.
We've been taught everything except how to be human.
Welcome to human school, where remarkable people turn raw,
unfiltered experience into practical wisdom.
I'm Miles Adcox, and this podcast was born from the belief
that you don't graduate from being human, you just get more
honest about the lessons. If you're ready to stop
(00:21):
performing your life and start participating in it, you're in
the right place. This is human School where we
finally learn what matters most.Hey everybody, and welcome back
to Human School. Today's going to be a little
different. It's no guest, just me and you.
Recently, I shared something that turned out to be way more
(00:43):
relatable and encouraging than Iever could have anticipated.
And ever since, I've been askingmyself the question, why?
Why did this message land so deeply?
So today I want to unpack it with you because I think it's
pointing to something a lot of us seem to be feeling right now.
Here's the message. What a privilege to be tired
(01:05):
from the work you once begged the universe for.
What a privilege to feel overwhelmed by growth you used
to dream about. What a privilege to be
challenged by a life you createdon purpose, And what a privilege
to outgrow things used to settlefor.
(01:26):
Now I want to pause for a momenthere and share a story that is
both meaningful to me, and it's one that I believe sets the tone
for what I'd like to touch on next about this message I just
shared. A few years ago, I lost one of
the best friends I've ever had. It was way harder on me than I
initially anticipated. Her name was Dakota and she was
(01:50):
an Australian Cattle Dog. Many of you may know that that
breed is a blue healer and I hadher since I could put her in the
palm of my hand and we spent every day together, moment by
moment together for close to 14 years.
She was with me through a whole lot of life and a whole lot of
seasons, especially the one in which I was building on site.
(02:13):
And there were a lot of ups and downs in those years.
One thing that was always steadyand reliable is no matter where
I went on that campus, no matterwhere I went in the world, she
was right on my heel. Every door I went into, she'd
sit and wait without any training at all, She'd sit and
wait on me to come out the otherside.
(02:35):
And as she started to age and get a little older, it became
more difficult for her to come with me places.
So she ended up staying at home and even when I would come home
and drive in our driveway, she could hear and feel my truck
coming in the driveway and she was always waiting for me when I
walked in the door. And as many of you dog lovers
(02:57):
know, there's no better greeting.
And when I would walk in my home, she would literally fall
at me step by step everywhere I went.
Sometimes I still hear her paw prints on the hardwood floors
walking behind me, but I lost her during an interesting
season. It was in the middle of the
pandemic a few years ago, and itwas a a season of uncertainty
(03:20):
where we didn't really know a lot, but we were getting fed a
lot of information that had us at home.
And I was pretty nervous. I had to shut down elements of
my business and put them on hold.
And I was like a lot of it stressed and trying to figure it
out. And one of the things I did from
being home more than usual was Istarted to really notice my home
(03:41):
environment. Now I'm a, a big outdoor guy, so
I I spend more time outside spaces that I live in than I do
inside. And I started to notice my yard.
I started to notice my landscaping.
And I don't know if you saw this, but the stock for Home
Depot and some of the other places where you can invest in
landscaping and making your yards beautiful skyrocketed
(04:02):
during the pandemic. I think a lot of us probably
started noticing things we just hadn't had time to notice and we
wanted to spend time trying to put some beauty into the spaces
that we call home. I certainly was one of those,
but I had two things going on. One, I was excited to go
irrigate my yard and put some new side in and and put some
landscaping and things I just hadn't made time to do in the
years previous. I also was dealing with a
(04:25):
business that was pretty flat from a revenue standpoint and I
was trying to keep all my folks employed.
So I had both things going on. I felt a little guilty for
spending the money, but I workedhard and so I did it.
And I felt guilty until the moment I walked out the front
door for the first time. When it was done, and I'll never
forget, it was kind of one of those Clark Griswold Christmas
(04:48):
vacation moments where the drum roll and the lights came on and
it was just beautiful. Everything was perfect,
everything was in place. The yard look stunning and I was
thrilled with it. This was right around the time
that my aging dog started to getsick and Dakota started to lose
(05:08):
her vision and she started to lose her hearing and it was
getting pretty difficult. I was having to be pretty hands
on with her around the clock with her care.
And we had this routine that we'd had for years.
But it became ever more important for me to accompany
her on this routine in her finaldays, which was I would walk her
to the front door and try to kind of guide her out into the
(05:30):
yard so she can go to the bathroom in the mornings.
And we would do that every morning around 6:30 AM.
And this morning was with our new yard.
And one thing I didn't know was that new yards, especially sod
and dog peed are not a good VIX.So after about 3 days of her
going out to the same spot in the yard, my beautiful yard
(05:54):
suddenly had this dead brown spot.
And ironically, it was in the most prominent visible spot in
the whole property. You couldn't miss it.
It was what you would see if youwere driving by.
It was what I saw every morning when I walked out the door.
It's what a guest would see if they walked in the sidewalk to
the front door. So this landscape, this kind of
masterpiece I thought I had created, Suddenly all I could
(06:16):
see was this brown spot, which ironically, she didn't have that
good of a name. So it got a little bigger.
It ended up being like a 5 by 5 or maybe a 7 foot by 7 foot big
dead spot in the most prominent part of the yard.
As you can imagine, I got prettyfrustrated by that.
I was I just spent this this money and everything looked
great and suddenly I couldn't see the beauty anymore.
(06:37):
All I saw was the brown spot. It was the I was hyper focused
on it. I was kind of like a a Buzzard
that was flying over hundreds ofacres of beautiful green grass
and flowers and all I could see was the one dead riding carcass
and I couldn't do anything but circle it.
So our morning routine got a little contentious there towards
the end. And when she would go out, I
(07:00):
would try to drag her over. I would get on tour.
The first thing I would do is say, Dakota, no, don't do that.
I try to drag her over and teachher to go in the mulch.
And she was old and I don't think she cared much.
She was probably looking at me like, look, buddy, you go 10
feet from your bed, it's pretty convenient.
So this is where I'm going to go.
But there wasn't much I could do.
(07:21):
About a week into that experience, with me being
frustrated with her going in theyard, being dead, we had our
final day together. She took a downward turn.
And I'll never forget, I loaded up in the car.
We went and did some of her favorite things.
We took a last truck ride and I took her to Outback and got her
(07:43):
a filet and she got to eat that.I took her to Starbucks and got
a pup cup and she got to eat that.
And then we made it back home and the vet came over and I had
to say goodbye to my friend. And I got to tell you the next
morning changed my life because I, I, I woke up at 6:30 and I
went out in the front yard without my best friend.
(08:09):
And suddenly that brown dead spot that I was frustrated at
and I didn't want to see, I wentand stood in the middle of it.
And it ended up becoming my prized possession because all I
could think about was if I couldget another day with her, I
think I'd just kill the whole yard.
And sometimes it's those subtle perspective shifts that get our
(08:30):
attention. It's often the thing that sits
just underneath the surface thatwe're not proud of and that me
maybe don't want people to see that.
If we shift the way we look at it, maybe it ends up becoming
the thing that we most long for.It's the unpretty parts of us
and the things that we often perceive are not worth talking
(08:53):
about or allowing people to see that once they're gone, we end
up valuing the most. That helped me that day begin to
shift my perspective in a lot ofgood ways.
And now I find myself when I'm stressed and tired and
overwhelmed and I have a, a different way of looking at
that. And if I turn it on its head,
(09:15):
often I feel like some of the things that overwhelm me and
stress me, I feel quite privileged to be able to have.
And some of the things that I, Icomplained about now and tell
you were really hard, like building a business or building
a relationship or sustaining a marriage.
I look back at some of those years, the early years of
parenting, and boy, I miss them.So I think right now many of us
(09:39):
are tired, and not necessarily because life is bad, it's
because life is full. It's full of schedules and full
of kids and full of deadlines and relationships and projects
and expectations. And when you're in it, when
you're juggling it all, it's easy to forget that at some
(10:01):
point, we ask for this. We chased it, we hoped for it,
we even built it. And now that it's here, it
doesn't always feel like we imagined it would.
Sometimes the very thing we prayed for becomes the thing we
feel buried under. Now, I want to be clear.
(10:21):
I know some of us are tired. Not because of what we pursued,
but because life has handed us circumstances we never would
have chosen. Some of you are carrying things
you didn't sign up for, like caring for someone who's sick,
working multiple jobs to make ends meet.
That's a different kind of tired, and it deserves its own
compassion. But what I'm referring to is a
(10:42):
lot of the advice we hear when we're overwhelmed is good
advice. Slow down, unplug, take breaks,
reset, go off the grid, simplify.
I've said a lot of those things,and I really believe in them.
I run an organization that helpspeople ground themselves in
learning to create a rested presence and become more
(11:03):
connected to who they are and how they're becoming.
And a lot of the things we prescribe are the very things I
just mentioned. But if I'm honest, for a lot of
people, people raising kids and leading teams, building
something from nothing, caring for a a sick parent, those
suggestions don't feel realistic.
They often feel idealistic, and sometimes that only makes us
(11:26):
feel worse, like we're failing twice.
I'm exhausted and I can't even get the rest part right.
So instead of starting with stop, maybe we should start with
look. Look at what's making us tired.
Is it stress or is it growth? Is it chaos or is it capacity?
(11:48):
Is it heaviness or is it evidence of your purpose?
Is it the burden or is it the blessing?
Because when we remember that wehelped create this, that we
dreamed about living a life thatasked something of us, it shifts
our experience and we can move from feeling like a victim of
our own momentum to remembering that at one point we were the
(12:09):
author of it. Exhaustion without meaning
drains us. Exhaustion with meaning can
sustain us. There was a season not too long
ago when I looked at my calendar, my schedule, my
responsibilities, and I even said out loud, I feel like I'm
drowning some days. Someone really close to me said,
(12:30):
Miles, remember when this exact calendar was your dream?
And it hit me. I'm tired, yes, but I'm tired
because I'm living the life I once hoped would happen.
That doesn't mean I don't need rest.
Structure, boundaries, all of that still matters.
But it does mean I need perspective, because when the
(12:51):
story changes, the way I carry it also changes.
This is not at all to glorify burnout.
I'm not romanticizing exhaustion.
I'm just saying I think we can hold both a little differently.
We can be tired and grateful. We can be overwhelmed and proud.
We can be stretched and still know we're right where we're
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supposed to be. And we can outgrow things and
still honor who we were when we chose them.
Psychologically, this is called reframing.
Shifting How we interpret our experience changes how our brain
and our bodies hold it. I'm drowning becomes I'm
expanding. I can't keep up becomes I'm
growing beyond my previous capacity.
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And when I'm tired, I remind myself, what a privilege.
So here's the invitation as we head into a week that for many
of us, is about gratitude and Thanksgiving.
What are you tired of, and couldthat tiredness be evidence of
something you once dreamed about?
Maybe instead of saying I have to, we start saying I get to.
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I get to show up for these kids.I get to lead this team.
I get to build what I used to just talk about in conversation.
I get to fight for what matters,and I get to be entrusted with
things I once wondered if I'd even be capable of.
I still do. So it's not.
Instead of rest, it's before it.Because gratitude without
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honesty is denial, but honesty without gratitude is despair.
I want to say that again. Gratitude without honesty is
denial, but honesty without gratitude is despair.
The art is learning to hold both.
So if you're listening today andyou're tired, before you try to
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fix it, just notice it, honor it, and then gently ask
yourself, is this tiredness of receipt for a life I chose?
And if the answer is yes, even just for today, maybe whisper to
yourself, what a privilege. Because naming that doesn't
erase the fatigue, but it does restore some dignity.
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It reminds us that even the lifewe dreamed of still ask
something of us. And that is not failure.
That's human school. Thank you for being here.
I hope this lands at justice, the right moment for you, and if
it does, please share it with someone who might need the
reminder. And not everything that
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stretches you is breaking you. Sometimes it's growing you.
I'll see you next time.
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