Goal

I haven't always known to ask the big questions about depression, or try to understand why some people had suicide and some had so much things worth living for. When my wife and I watched the bittersweet monologue play Every Brilliant Thing last night, we found a canonical "keep going" or  magical "keep writing." 

Not long after a mother's suicide attempt, her daughter (or son, in the original and many other versions) makes a list of all the brilliant or joyful things worth living for. She starts writing at age 7 and her list keeps growing. A solid goal to hit, 1000 things. One thousand things helps.  

The best part of setting a quantifiable goal is the satisfaction of seeing what we can accomplish, what we're capable of. That is also how the novelist Jami Attenberg used the #1000wordsofsummer movement – write 1000 words a day, every day – to motivate herself and many others. 

A helpful thing to remember is that we can't finish what we don't start. The only way to the end is through.

Think about the Nike slogan and you will know the way to start the proverbial one-thousand-mile journey.