When you first embark upon your new journey, you will be quickly and consistently tempted to turn back to familiar places, faces, and roads — regardless of how fruitless they were (you left for a reason). 

We must be like Hernan Cortes, burning our ships in order to force reliance upon our strengths, our organic resources, and our vision in this new land.  

I unpack this concept and give examples of my own temptations to turn back to desolate lands.