I’m listening to Greenlights a memoir by @officiallymcconaughey right now and I’ve learned more from his rambling bumper sticker, story-telling, authenticity than I could imagine. . . . There’s this one part where he talks about how the best archers don’t aim at the target, they aim through it. . . . This short realization stuck with me for a long time. I thought about my whole life how we’ve always aimed at targets, at the bullseye. But how much more sense it made to aim through to the other side. . . . Then the application to life and professional goals hit me. What if I didn’t just aim for the bullseye? What if in aimed for the other side? Imagine not only the potential for hitting the target but for reaching something so much greater. . . . Then I started to think about mountain climbing. Why just try reaching the top? The peak is just the beginning. Let’s go for the other side of the mountain, and perhaps even the mountain after that one? . . . We grow up with these ideas that we aim at targets, and we climb to the top, but what if that’s only half the journey? . . . Read or listen to Greenlights by Matthew Mcconaughey, you will learn so much about yourself (and have fun learning about him). You won’t regret it. * * * #bookrecommendations #jsydswritings #jsydspoetry #aimthroughit #overthemountain #greenlight #lifequotes (at Jackson, Mississippi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYzFiddFkbGbNRh_vYEKVFWjPNST3qZHKbQ0Kg0/?utm_medium=tumblr