By the Ocean
Cloudy 76 Degrees
6:10 a.m.
One way to destroy your enjoyment of business and life is to constantly wish you were someone else, doing something else, experiencing something else.
Imagine if Superman was bummed out every day because he wasn’t doing things like Batman does. That would be silly. A superhero able to save humanity just sitting around annoyed because he has to fly around town with a cape instead of using a cool Bat Mobile.
That would be a dumb thing to do. Even so, we do this all of the time.
Right now, sitting there reading this, you have superpowers. They might be currently in use, they might be developing, they might be waiting for you to activate them.
If you spend your time envying the superpowers of others, you lose.
“But Johnny made five million dollars and all he did was figure out that peanut butter tastes great with chocolate. He always was lazy.”
It’s easy to make up the stories when you see other people doing it, making it, getting somewhere you think you want to be.
It’s also a waste of time. There’s a little spoken truth that you will probably never hear any “guru” utter out loud for fear it will hurt their sales.
That truth is this:
We didn’t all come for the same thing.
If you can accept that, if you can actually embrace that as your advantage, you can free up an enormous amount of energy and focus to do the thing you’re here to do.
What is it?
I don’t know. That’s your job to figure out. And you don’t have a lot of time. So if you feel an urgency in your being, that’s probably a good sign that you’re sane, alive and ready to move forward.
We KNOW you didn’t come for no reason. There’s a purpose.
Maybe it’s simply to experience the path you’re on. What if that’s all you get? What if that’s the secret? That you break the habit of trying to get what you want and develop the habit of wanting what you get?
How well are you using the gifts you’ve been given? Have you figured out how to transform them into value for others? Have you thought about how you might use them to enrich the lives of a certain segment of humanity? How committed are you to making the world a better place and not just “trying to survive?”
What would change if you embraced everything and used that lack of resistance to WHAT IS to allow you to freely move in the direction of your deepest desires?
Is there another purpose to life?