Finish your unfinished business in life

I​t's the perfect memory for today.

I've crossed a bunch of finish lines in my running life. Few mean more than this one.

Five years ago today, I crossed the finish line of the Houston marathon. That - after just the year before - getting pulled from the course at mile 18 for failure to maintain the speed limit...

In this finish line moment, it was reinforced in me the value of finishing unfinished business.

Some business is best left unfinished. It's true. But some business settles into our minds and upon our hearts and we know from there only two possibilities exist:

It forever eats you, or you once and for all eat it.

AGENCY: the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.

That 2018 Houston Marathon non-finish ate at me for a year. But I had agency over that monster eating at me, and four years ago today I exerted the power I had to eat it. Once and for all.

This morning I'm reminded that I have agency, and so do you. We all wake up this morning with some level of unfinished business in our lives. Unfinished business that lives in us as two possibilities.

It eats us, or we once and for all eat it.

Our choice.

Our agency.