Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

Your Priorities Aren't Really Yours

Daily Chase #256

May 14, 2026
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Most of us didn’t choose our priorities. We grabbed them.

We grabbed them off the pile of what our culture said mattered — the achievement, the status, the busy calendar, the growing income. We grabbed them because everyone else was grabbing them and it felt wrong to be the one standing still, not because we stopped a…

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