#229 What are you striving for?

If you think you know how to write a story but never do it, do you really know how to write a story?

If you think you know how to do a yoga pose but never do it, do you really know how to do that yoga pose?

If you think you know how to apologize for a mistake but never do it, do you really know how to apologize?

If you know what you want to do but aren’t doing it, do you really know what you want?

Because hidden beneath your goals and technical step-by-step instructions to accomplish them, there’s an obstacle course of personal context, personal beliefs, past experiences, and emotions.

And these, you won’t discover in books or videos.

These, you’ll encounter by doing.

And these, you’ll conquer by doing.

I don’t care much for indifference.

But dismissal… that’s something else.

The more I dismiss something, the more curious I get.

Does it contradict my values?

Am I afraid?

Or am I pushing away something I secretly want?

I don’t know what it is about dismissal, my friend.

But I do know that the stronger the feelings, the more interesting it gets.

Be fulfilled with what you do (and be happy with what you don’t do).

Be intentional with what you do.

Be consistent with what you do.

Because what you do will change you.

And when you change, you might just get everything you ever wanted.

And you might just become happy with what you have.