#505 Questions to uncover your passion

Are you practicing writing? Or giving up writing?
Are you practicing persevering? Or giving up?
Are you practicing doing what you know is good for you? Or ignoring what you know is good for you?

You’re always practicing something. And what you practice, you’ll become good at. And what you practice will persist.

What’s the one Tiny Trust Builder you can do for yourself; one little thing thing that makes you feel good about yourself, and because you feel good, you’re good to other around you too?

What’s that one small constraint YOU decide to put on your day that, when protected fiercely, makes everything else so much better?

And if you know it makes everything better and you aren’t protecting it fiercely yet – why not?

Could you start today?

You’re dissatisfied with your social life, but not so much that you feel terribly lonely – so you don’t change anything.

You’re dissatisfied with your physical fitness, but not so much that you’re in pain every day – so you put up with slow deterioration.

You’re dissatisfied with your current job, but not so much that you’re dragging yourself to work – so you put up with unfulfilling days.

Being satisfied with some areas of your life is good.

Being intensely dissatisfied with some areas of your life is fine, too – because that unhappiness can be the leverage you need to make a change.

But comfortable dissatisfaction – that’s the zone where dreams and happiness go to die. And boy, have I spent a lot of time there.

So I hope you are satisfied with your life, my friend.

And if not, I hope you’re at least intensely dissatisfied.

Let that be the fuel you need to take action to change.

You kind of want to run a marathon.

You kind of want to eat better.

You kind of want to move more.

You kind of want to feel better.

And everything kind of stays the same.

Only when “kind of” becomes “absolutely” and “want to” becomes “choose to” change happens.

I absolutely choose to write.

I absolutely choose to run a marathon.

I absolutely choose to eat better.

I absolutely choose to move more.

I absolutely choose to do whatever it takes to feel better.

Because there is no other way.