As I drive home each day from my day job, I pass the Los Angeles International Airport. Often, I roll down my window to better take in the smell of the jet fuel. It is fuel for me too—transporting me back to childhood vacations, trips to Spain, France, with family, and to my teens and twenties, when I saved and traveled all over the world: Africa, Australasia, India, and Nepal to name some of my favorite destinations.
I still find something remarkably freeing in arriving in a new country, especially one that has a language that I don't understand. Unlike Bono's experience in the song "Streets With no Name," I find the experience very freeing. No words to call on my brain seeking interpretation, and I am able to move freely and more at peace.
Each time I smell the jet fuel, a primary question rises in my heart: "If I was to start all over again tomorrow, what would I do differently?"
It's a question that keeps me fresh, bold, and inspired. As my friend Steve Chandler says, "You only have a certain amount of heartbeats in this life. What do you want to do with yours?"
As you workout today, allow this question to drift throughout your being. If you were to start all over again tomorrow, what would you want life to look like? What would you do differently? What would you keep, what would you change? The truth is, you can start again tomorrow, if you wish to. More importantly, if you choose to. If not now, then when?
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