#493 This is why I’m doing it

Opportunities often stare us in the face in our daily interactions, routines, and familiar environments – and that guise of the ordinary makes them invisible.

After all, seeing the value in something that comes so easily to you is hard.

So it takes an outsider to point it out.

What skill are you taking for granted even though it’s really pretty cool?

What comes naturally to you but is hard for others to do?

Which problems can you solve effortlessly? If you solve them for others, how would that set them free?

Getting worked up about traffic jams is not pleasant, but it’s predictable. And addictive.

So is giving up on writing a book, quitting a workout regime, and re-living any conflict or failure.

Not pleasant. But predictable.

This is how you’ve always felt. And this is how you’ll always feel – unless you become aware of the unpleasant, predictable, addictive patterns and decide to act differently.

Not only once, not twice, but every time you become aware of the pattern until you’ve built enough self-trust that you know the unpleasant predictable events aren’t inevitable.

One question to make distractions fall away and make the mind turn quiet:

What’s most important right this very second?

Not today. Not this week. Right this very second.

When you know you are not the words you write, you can write more freely.

When you know you are not the time you run in your marathon, you can run more freely.

When you know you are not your pain, you can let it be the without thinking it’ll never go away.

And when you know you are not your love either, you can enjoy it fully without being afraid to lose it.