Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

Grace and Growth Aren't Enemies

Daily Chase #140

Nov 14, 2025
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There’s a tension we all navigate: acknowledging that something is genuinely hard without letting that acknowledgment become an excuse.

We want to give ourselves grace when life gets difficult. But we also don’t want to slip into victim thinking - that passive place where we convince ourselves the situation is impossible a…

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