Kary Oberbrunner

When you feel like quitting, you’re often close to a breakthrough. One day, I was out on a hike, looking down on the city. I could see a beautiful blanket of fog covering my town. As I watched the fog, I started noticing that some of the details on the other side of fog were a bit hazy, and I couldn’t see a clear path to the other side. It reminded me of all the struggles we all go through when we feel like we keep hitting obstacles or experiencing failures. Because that fog is there we can’t see that on the other side, success is just waiting for us to toss away our fear to venture through the dense fog. This is a physical representation of the gap that exists between what we know is possible and what we see on the other side. Rather than quitting, we need to push through.

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