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This morning, I sat at my desk - right here at home - with a journal open, a pen in my hand and thinking. A small whisper in my head: "𝙈𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧" I paused and looked at my blank page and realised, "𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚"  and I wrote two simple words: "𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟭" But as always, the thoughts started creeping in again: “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵",  Not only the first every step after that is going to be hard" “𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯? 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭. “𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘳?” And the answer, at least for me, is… "𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆" But you know what does change? 𝗠𝗘 𝘔𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴. 𝘔𝘺 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯. For the last 3 years, I’ve been chasing something. And while I may not have much success to show in numbers or milestones, I’ve gained something far more valuable: 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬...