115. There’s so much more for you to give

Don’t take the easy way out.

Johnson Kee
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

It’s easy to throw in the towel. To not give it your best shot. To say “that’s good enough”. It’s far harder to face yourself and realize that you’re not the person that you think you are.

We justify, we procrastinate or we simply ignore. We let the opportunities fly by saying that more will come. We are afraid of letting go of our comforts to dangle precariously from the edge of the cliff with no safe purchase.

100 Naked Words writer Ronan Takagi was stuck in a job he liked but didn’t love; he was stuck in a rut. So what did he do? He became an Uber driver. This was in 2014. Now, three years later, he’s a doting dad, found true love and has written his first book, 50 Fares.

If he was able to go back to himself three years ago and tell him that today he would have a partner, a child and a published book with a handful of 5-star reviews, I’m sure he’d be kicking himself. But he’s there because he realized he had more to give.

And he didn’t take the easy way out — and neither should you.

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100 Naked Words

Est. May 2016. 100 vulnerable words, one day at a time. Every day.

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Johnson Kee

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Human, father, writer. On my way.

100 Naked Words

Est. May 2016. 100 vulnerable words, one day at a time. Every day.

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