I looked up one day and realized I should have more
clarity than this.

Four years at the Academy.
22 years active duty.
Commanded a squadron.

By any measure, a successful career.

And yet I woke up in this new chapter asking myself,
Why don’t I know exactly what to do every day?

That’s what caught me off guard about
operating at a new level.

It wasn’t that I couldn’t do hard things.

It was that the structure I’d relied on, the mission, the
team, the priorities, none of that was being
done for me anymore.

I used to wake up, plan the day, plan the week.
The mission was clear.

Now I’m building all of that from scratch.
And some days, it just feels like fog.

Not because something’s wrong.
Because uncertainty is just part of this.

What lets me sit in it is knowing I’m connected
to my purpose.

I’ve done the work on my Blueprint.
I know what I’m building and why.

That doesn’t make the fog go away.

But it does make it something I can sit in
without needing to fix it today.

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