This is the meaning of life.

I remember being 7 years old and doing push-ups, collapsing after a few half-reps, rolling onto my back, throwing my legs up onto the couch, and diving right into doing a set of sit-ups.

I remember being 9 years old and devouring a book on Greek mythology in a single day.

My whole life I’ve been drawn to, or pulled by, the desire to improve myself.

Even before it was conscious.

It’s always been a part of me.

And yes, I fell off the track a few times, especially around the ages of 16-18.

I’m not perfect.

I never have been and never will be.

I’ve failed more times than most people ever even try.

But I keep going.

And recently, I’ve been asking myself why.

Where does this desire to improve, this desire to keep going come from?

After some soul-searching, I’ve found the answer, or at least, my answer.

This is the meaning of life.

You are put on this earth as a blank canvas.

A raw block of marble.

You are molded and slightly chiseled into a rough outline throughout childhood.

But once you reach adulthood, the outline is just that, an outline.

You have the opportunity to carve yourself from this raw block of marble into a statue of mastery and excellence.

Because what else would you do?

What is more meaningful than crafting a vision for you and your life, charting a path to follow, and following it?

And this vision will differ from person to person.

For you, part of this vision might be to hit the gym and get jacked.

Or it might be to raise your kids in the best possible way.

Or it might be to start the business you’ve had in the back of your mind for the past 10 years.

Or it might be all 3.

Either way, like I said, what else would you do?

Wander mindlessly through life, let the wind take you where it wants to take you?

Because if you don’t have a goal, if you’re not pursuing mastery, curiosity, and meaning, that’s exactly what you’re doing.

Progress, at least meaningful and significant progress that matters, requires direct, distinct, and concentrated effort.

It doesn’t happen by accident.

You have to know what you want.

You have to set your damn target and aim at it.

You have to know how to get there, or at the very least, the very next step you have to take.

And you have to put in an ungodly amount of effort to make it happen.

The meaning of life is to create your own meaning through the vision you have for the raw block of marble that you are.

The pursuit of anything else, anything LESS, is meaningless.

It’s a life that results in you taking the path of least resistance, letting time pass you by, lacking fulfillment, love and meaning.

And what is a life without meaning?

What’s the point?

There is none.

Yet meaning is arbitrary.

Meaning is what you make of it. Meaning is your goals, your plans, your pain, your sacrifices, your effort, your failures and your achievements.

Meaning is the act of becoming all you could be.

So wake up.

You know you could be doing better, that you WANT to do better.

You know you’re meant for more.

You know what you need to do.

Wake up.

Craft the vision for you and your life.

Chart the path that will get you there.

And show up.

Do the work you know you need to do. Commit to the process. Embrace the failures, the learnings, the achievements.

Lean into the pain and the suffering that is necessary for you to chisel away the marble that surrounds the sculpture that’s already inside you, the vision that you’ve crafted.

Pursue mastery, curiosity and excellence.

Because what’s the alternative?

You live a life of no fulfillment, wander mindlessly, and wake up on your death bed wondering what went wrong.

Instead take on the responsibility that comes with meaning and strive for the greatest goal you can strive for;

Becoming all you could be.

- Ross.

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