I asked a simple question regarding Advocare: Do you miss it and if so, what do you miss most? I thought people would mostly say the products or really just vent from what happened. Or maybe it was the “stuff”: Money. Trips. Recognition. They didn't. You didn’t. What showed up over and over again was: - Leadership - Accountability - Growth - Community - Being challenged - Being encouraged - Having people believe in them And if I’m being honest, I don't think people miss a company. (Many of you are in a company now but it doesn’t feel the same. Your words, not mine.) I think they miss becoming. Because at some point, many of us stopped surrounding ourselves with people who challenged us. We stopped setting goals. We stopped sharing our dreams. We stopped expecting more from ourselves. Not because we quit. Life just got loud. Responsibilities piled up. Disappointments happened. We tried to recreate the experience with those other companies and they didn’t live up to our expectations no matter how unrealistic they may have been. And before we knew it, we were surviving instead of growing. I decided at the beginning of the year that I was going to step out and lead again. Create a message that is fully “Jason” and try to share it. Let it become the drum I beat for all to hear and help people get unstuck. It’s been months of writing, sharing, reading and allowing it to get in me. But something happened along the way. I found myself stuck. Stuck in fear, doubt, worry and anxiety. “Do I have what it takes to lead people anymore?” “Have I failed too much?” Those thoughts rattled around in my head for weeks and even months before I finally just said ENOUGH. I knew if I felt this way, so did others and maybe I can help. That's why this room exists. Not to sell you a course. Not to convince you of anything. Not to turn you into somebody else. This is a place to come back. Come back to leadership. Come back to accountability. Come back to discipline.