Well...are you?

They say "being there is half the battle."

I disagree.

Being there isn't even close to half.

You can "be there" but not be invested. You can "be there" but not be connected. You can "be there" but not be in.

Are you in?

That's what Thor Heyerdahl asked of his men when he was looking for commitments on the Kon-Tiki Expedition in 1947. The Kon-Tiki expedition was a journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

Heyerdahl needed committed men for his journey. He needed men who "were in."

No matter the journey, task, event, relationship or job, ask yourself "are you in?" If not, you are just there; filling a void. If you are really in, you feel it in every fiber of who you are. The highs are so high you need supplemental oxygen just to breathe. And the lows are so low you need a crane to dig yourself out.

Are you in?

Life's too short not to be.