Moving Forward Through Resistance

Robert Frost's line, "the best way out is always through," came up last week in a conversation with a friend who was in town for Unreal Fest. He's been navigating a lot in the game industry right now, and I found it genuinely moving to watch how he carries himself through it. He keeps his focus on what he can control and continues to show up for his work and the partnerships he's building.

That conversation brought me back to a set of questions I return to constantly: for myself, for my family, and for the kids. How do you focus on what you can actually control? How do you keep making progress despite what gets thrown in front of you? How do you prioritize well enough that you're chipping away at the right things across work, home, and everything in between?

Moving forward and resilience tend to go together. You can't really have one without constantly solving for the other, and it gets noisy. I don't have a tidy list of tips and tricks, and I think that's a longer conversation for another day. But "forward" is the word I'm sitting with right now.

Robert Frost said the best way out is always through. I think about that a lot.

Last week, I was talking with a friend who was in town for Unreal Fest. He's been through a lot in the game industry, and it genuinely moved me to watch how he carries himself through it. He keeps his eyes on what he can control, keeps building, and keeps showing up for the work in front of him and the partnerships he's nurturing. I'm not going to share what he's working on because that's his news to share. But the way he's navigating it all is the kind of thing that sticks with you.

It made me think about what moving forward actually looks like in practice, not the inspirational-poster version of it. Life gets hard. Life gets genuinely challenging, and I'm not going to sit here and say, "Just keep moving and it'll be fine," because that's not honest. But I do find myself returning to the same set of questions over and over, not just for myself, but for my family, for the kids, and for life in general.

How do you focus on the things you can actually control? How do you keep making progress despite what gets thrown in front of you? How do you prioritize what you can and can't take on so you're chipping away at the right things at home, at work, and in all the space in between?

It gets noisy. It gets crazy. Resilience and forward motion tend to go together that way. You can't really have one without constantly solving for the other. I don't have a tidy list of tips and tricks for how to do it. I think that's probably a longer conversation for another day. But "forward" is the word I'm sitting with right now, and I wanted to put it out there.