Uncommon Insight

What sort of a question is that? You may as well be speaking another language. You may as well be a bird chirping. Or the wind blowing. Actually no, if that were the case, it would be a much better question.

The advice ‘don’t wait until everything is just right to start on your dreams’ applies to much more simple, practical tasks as well. Don’t wait to do the small things, spend less time and energy thinking about what you need to do and just get it done already.

Anytime we are living below our potential as humans I think it has less to do with ‘not believing we deserve any better’ and more to do with genuinely believing that ‘that’s just the way life is’. Not knowing, or even thinking that there is the possibility for another way.

Elon Musk, who was already a twice successful entrepreneur when he went to start Space X, was doubted by his fellow successful friends. Doubt is the default state of most humans, embrace it and carry on.

There are many things in life that you will like doing and there are few things that you will love. Notice the difference and focus on the latter.

When you don’t feel like creating that’s probably a sign that you need to. When you’re in a bad mood or when you’re just not ‘feeling it’ that might actually be a really effective way of being vulnerable with your art form and actually creating something pure or new.

Can I make change in 15 minutes per day? Can I make progress? For what shall I aim? About what shall I write? When I think of how tired I am and how much I want to do I almost want to cry. Why is it that when I want to create I don’t have…

How much simpler would life be if we just allowed the things we were good at to happen?  Instead of blocking them – get out of your own way. 

Motivation, exercise, relationships – everything – must be nurtured regularly, or it will fade away. You die if you stop eating. You die if you stop breathing. Everything is a continuous process, you have to keep going.

When we don’t take accountability we can blame the wrong things and this leaves us powerless to change and grow. Blame keeps us stuck because we’re spending all of our energy focusing on the past. Focusing on things we can’t change. The only thing we can change is what we do right now.