It was 1:41am when I woke up half asleep from a dream to scramble for my phone and text myself this quote…

“I like to come from somewhere fallen because when I have to put myself back together again the reward is greater than if I just win.”

In my dream I was a race car driver and in the middle of the race my car broke down. I pulled it over and did my best to fix it so I could at least get through the finish line. Well, low and behold I actually ended up winning the race! At the finish line I kept repeating that quote in my head until I woke up and something told me to write it down. The next morning I grabbed my phone to see if what I had wrote down half asleep really made sense. When I read it again it made me realize how amazing our subconscious mind really is.

“I like to come from somewhere fallen because when I have to put myself back together again the reward is greater than if I just win.”

This can mean a couple of different things but for me it means just because we have faults, we make mistakes and we fall apart more than we’d like to admit…  it’s what we do after we make those mistakes, it’s how we deal with what we’re dealt, how we make ourselves better after we’ve messed up and how we choose to pick ourselves up after we’ve fallen. If life were easy and we never messed up… there would be no sense of accomplishment, no sense of desire and no heart pounding high of satisfaction. We wouldn’t be who we are without our broken pieces and we wouldn’t be able to share our success’s big or small with people who might need to hear them only to better themselves as well.

Truly, it’s not about the win. It’s about the race.