Making peace can be healing, but it can also be a way of avoiding the discomfort of wanting more. When peace costs you honesty, it may be time to reopen the question you closed too early.

Comfort feels protective, but it quietly reinforces who you already are. Growth requires environments that support you while asking more of you than comfort ever will.

Without a bold commitment to something greater, small steps don’t lead anywhere meaningful. Big commitments give us direction. They provide  a benchmark to measure progress. And they keep us moving when we’d otherwise slow down.