A friend sent me a really interesting prompt last week that I'm sharing with you all today, one that I thought a lot about on my morning 5K time trial this morning. Spoiler alert: If you're not doing things for YOU, then what's the point?

PROMPT: What do you do because it matters to you? And what do you do because you want to signal something to other people?

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