Looking at my current remote setup today, I couldn’t help but feel incredibly appreciative of where I am today and also all of the things that I had to put myself through just to make it this far. Even though there were days where I wondered if my actions and decisions to persevere and follow my passions would be worth it. Self-doubts were a norm on most days. But I instead chose to persevere on. I knew that there is always a real chance that I could fail. But I also know that I will never be able to live with myself if I wake up one day, years from now, thinking, “What if I had tried?”, “What if I had held on for just a little longer?” The problem with that kind of thinking is that I can never do anything about it. I won’t be able to reset the clock and go back in time to make a different choice. Like Denis Waitley puts it, “The real risk is doing nothing.” I started this journey back in 2014, and since then, it has been officially a decade now. I told myself back then, “Ten years from now, I don’t want to wake up one morning with regrets in my heart, wondering what my life would’ve been like if I only had the courage to try.” 10 years later, even though my goals and passion is still a work-in-progress, I have already made plenty of progress so far. But only because I was willing to take the risk of doing something that others might not have been willing to do back then.