Before you begin, I want to ask one thing of you. Be honest. I built this because I genuinely want to help you, but it will only help as much as you're willing to let it. If you're not somewhere quiet where you can think, reflect, and answer honestly, I encourage you to come back when you are. The next few pages are going to ask you some difficult questions, and I need you to answer them as honestly, thoroughly, and specifically as you can. Be long winded. Don't worry about saying the right thing. Pour your heart out. No one besides you and me will ever read your answers. Growth begins with honesty, so in the spirit of honesty, I'll go first.

I know what it feels like to have nothing make sense anymore. I've been broke more than once. I've been married and divorced. I've buried loved ones, mentors, and friends. I've tried building businesses that failed, I've ran completely hollow businesses. I've worked jobs I hated and I couldn't find a job. I've been sick, I've been healthy. I've dealt with incapacitating DPDR and Pure OCD. My life felt like one painful event after another. I at one point in my life, was completely lost. Looking back now, I believe everything I was trying to build under my own strength had to fall before I was willing to trust God's purpose instead of my own. Everyone around me seemed to have advice. Make a five year plan. Find a mentor. Read another book. Work harder. But all I could think was, "I've been busting my ass for years trying to do the right thing, and it still feels like I'm running on a treadmill." I felt like I was lost in the woods, and every time I followed someone else's directions, I'd feel confident for a little while only to stumble across the same tree I'd already passed. None of it answered the question I was actually asking.

What do I do next?

For me, it took some digging and some question-asking of myself. Now, I'm not here today to give you your answer, I'm giving you the shovel I used to start digging up your answer. Don't think of this as me telling you what to do, but rather sharing what I did, so you can't avoid the frustration and confusion of feeling stuck. These are the same kinds of questions I had to ask myself. Questions that forced me to be honest. Questions that stripped away the opinions of everyone around me, the fear, the pride, and the excuses until I could finally recognize what God had been placing on my heart all along.

Looking back now, sitting down and working through these questions changed my life. And the decision at the conclusion of these questions, sent my life on a trajectory that I could never have imagined. I finally feel I am walking in God's purpose for me. Not because I made the perfect decision, but because I made one and acted on it. I have learned that God rarely gives us the whole plan. If He did, the weight of it would probably overwhelm us before we ever began. Instead, He gives us enough light for the next step and asks us to trust Him with the rest. We want certainty before we move, but faith has always required movement before clarity. The life I have today was not built because I knew where I was going. It was built because I was willing to take one faithful step without knowing where it would lead.

That is my hope for you today. You are not here to solve your entire life, and you are not here to leave with every answer. You are here to discover one honest next step, the one you've probably sensed for a while but have been afraid to take. Maybe it's a conversation. Maybe it's setting a boundary. Maybe it's asking for help. Maybe it's letting go of something you've been carrying, or finally being honest with yourself. Whatever it is, I believe the answer is already in you, we just need to do some work to find it. My hope is that these prompts help quiet the noise long enough for you to recognize it, trust God with it, and have the courage to take that next step. So, let's find it together.

— Mason