Clarity

We have 30 days until graduation and half that until the Marathon, and the bitter sweetness is starting to set in. It isn't that I have any less work, it's just that I don't quite want to do much of it. I had written a post about running with an end in mind, but what is more difficult is running without a clear end, which is often true in life. Nothing is black and white, there is a lot of gray we have to deal with. With jobs, projects, people, relationships, and almost everything else - clarity is something that we define and sometimes it takes a while to get there.

I was thinking about this when I ran my longest run yesterday -  you don't know where the end is until you get close to it. How do you still keep going and tell yourself that there is something at the end? In Tepper's MIPD (Management of Innovation in Product Development) track, we go through this process of developing a product and until the last phases of the project, we are trying to clear the muddied waters of our thoughts and research and consumer behavior. Sometimes you may reach the end and realize that it wasn't really where you wanted to be, but you move on from it. You don't know until you get there, and until you take those first few steps toward it.

Bottom Line: Take the first few steps and see where you end up. Worst case scenario is that you'll keep moving forward.