Doing What It Takes
June 18, 2024
Far too many conversations I have with people sound like this: "Yes, I really want it!"
"OK, here is how you can do it."
"WHAT WORKING 4H A DAY ON IT!" no, I like to do it in a way that really feels good to me.
"Oh, I have already done some training." "I think for now I really want to take it slow, see and be."
I have absolutely nothing against taking things slow and being present to the beauty of life. In fact, I think we miss this opportunity far too often.
And I am far too often realizing when I am delusional in what it takes to create something.
Things really can move magically, just happen, come in one flow, appear out of nothing, and most of the time, they don't.
Creating something in the world takes action, and it takes the action that will lead to creating it.
The full program you want doesn't care about whether you feel like reaching out to people or not, and if you really want it, you reach out to 200 people if 100 haven't yet cut it.
Yet you don't. You don't really want it.
Most people don't really want it. They say they want to live an authentic life, but when it comes to the moment of fully expressing themselves, they would rather not rock the boat.
People want the outcome as long as the cost is low or comfortable.
Yet great things in life are not created that way. It takes something to be self-expressed; otherwise, you would already be. It takes something to get a business off the ground and beyond mere survival, and what it takes is different from what you already like to do; otherwise, you would have it.
This is not about sacrificing your health to make money, killing your relationships to say what you want when you want it without care.
This is about doing what it takes to make it happen.
If you want to only work 4h a day and make 400k a year, be real with yourself and see, am I doing what it takes to create that?
Or is my shame, my hesitation, my insecurity, my not wanting to be bothered, my overwhelm, my tiredness, my past, my partner, my house, my environment, my skin color, my body shape the excuse I use to not do what it takes?
Doing what it takes is a function of someone who is committed to what they are committed to. Someone whose word expresses their being, someone whose word is who they are. When they say they want to create this, they do what it takes to create it, as the creation of it is who they are.
Most people live in a world where what they say has no weight, what they want isn't important, and staying in the comfort of their known world gets them again and again.
Being someone who does what it takes to bring themselves to life fully inspires, connects, and creates a new possibility for us and our being.
When we meet such a person, we get that we have played it safe, played small, and fallen back into sleep, forgetting what it takes for us to fully live.
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations."
― George Bernard Shaw
Get yourself out of the trott and into life again, and do what it takes to make what you want to happen in this world a reality.
No one will do it for you.