Saturday, December 10, 2011
It's Been What.... Two Years?!!?
There is power in achieving daily wins, like:
- Being on time for work for for 6 months straight, after today
- Maintaining that strict diet you say you would
- Helping your mom to buy the groceries again
- Meeting that monthly sales target
- Finishing your homework on time, as always
Yet there is an untapped potential power that we all possess, more magnificent than any daily goals we currently have. That which has been swept away beneath the foreground of everyday-worries, procrastination, and limited self-belief. These potential powers lie in the deepest parts of our subconscious, and most of us continue to push it away, and eventually forget it. Like:
- That song you've always wanted to learn to play on the guitar
- That piece of music you've been saying you wanted to write since months ago
- That new language you've been wanting to pick up
- That new recipe
- That book you've been keeping in your drawer but never in the past year had time to open to a single page to read. (Or so you claimed)
- That piece of art which you keep visualizing in your head but never got it painted
- That vacation trip you've said you wanted for years
- That watersport you've been wanting to learn
- That short-film you've been wanting to direct and shoot, but haven't found time because of your full-time job
Well the question is -
How much of your life are you willing to disrupt, in the most responsible manner possible, to achieve this power? Not because of what you will have when you achieve it, but because of what you will become in the process of the journey.
Because what many of us don't realize is that, it is only upon the completion of these tasks and attainment of these powers, that would propel us into the next phase of life. Not our 'daily wins', and definitely not our fucking bullshit excuses we give ourselves everyday.
As Steve Jobs mentioned during a speech at a university graduation: "We cannot connect the dots looking forward, we can only connect them looking backwards". What he means is that, it is unexplainable as to why one would suddenly be compelled to do something new and possibly absolutely unrelated with their current study/profession. But answer that call, and do it anyway, because years down the road, you will look back, and then you will realize why you've done that.
For Steve, he also shared that for some weird reason he suddenly got interested in calligraphy at a young age. And he went on to pursue a study in that. Little did he expect that years later, he would be creating computers and introducing beautiful typography and fonts into the system, thus bringing computers into a breakthrough like never before.
You see, these treasures hide under mountains of rock and sand. And even after going all out to dig it out with your bare hands, you have no idea what the hell all that effort has been for. And chances are, you will never find out until years later. But answer that call anyway, it will reward you a 100 times greater than all of your daily wins put together. The evidence has been proven by hundreds of successful people around us.
Otherwise, continue in your contentment of 'daily wins'. I'm sure you'll still lead a great life.
Pfffffft.
All the best, folks.
Always remember to love, forgive, and share, wholeheartedly, always. And always.
Justin, 00:57