I believe in dreaming big. But I also believe in planning small. When it comes to finding our purpose, a prerequisite to that is finding the motivation. And motivation is hard. It comes in waves, it ebbs and it flows, and at some point you realize it's not the motivation you need, it's the discipline. The day in and day out seemingly endless grind. However when we have that goal in mind, that big dream, there's always some unnecessary attached requirement. If I'm an IT major, why in the world do I need to take intro to agriculture, or Spanish 101? How does that actually contribute to my main efforts? It doesn't. It's not enough. But they add up. Does adding some vegetables to your meal make you a nutritionist? Does taking your trash out make you a sanitization expert? No, but the further we get away from these requirements, the further we get away from ourselves, and the more we get away from our goal. The further we get away from ourselves, the more we forget how to be with ourselves. And in this day and age we run right to the internet who quite literally preys (and prays) on all of our insecurities. Somebody is selling some panacea somewhere. Somebody has EXACTLY what you need to make more money, get a better jaw line, improve your thigh gap, get a couple inches taller, whatever it is you hate about yourself. "The rest of the world" is telling you what you need to do, but it's like walking down a market street. Imagine going to the grocery store, you turn down an alleyway because you heard it's a shortcut, and as you're walking you get immediately bombarded by people who all seemingly work at those sunglasses huts and phone/internet stands and everyone is pulling you this way then that way, you lose your whole sense of direction and that's just like losing sense of your internal compass. Just to come out the other end and find out that wasn't a shortcut at all. You just crossed the block inside instead of outside. The grocery store is still the same distance sitting there on the corner. The point here is the answer isn't in all of that "externalization" it's in our focus. If we can find those moments to get out of the way of ourselves then we can better find our purpose through focus and through discipline because there's no more white noise clouding our vision. What stands in the way, becomes the way.
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I believe in dreaming big. But I also believe in planning small. When it comes to finding our purpose, a prerequisite to that is finding the motivation. And motivation is hard. It comes in waves, it ebbs and it flows, and at some point you realize it's not the motivation you need, it's the discipline. The day in and day out seemingly endless grind. However when we have that goal in mind, that big dream, there's always some unnecessary attached requirement. If I'm an IT major, why in the world do I need to take intro to agriculture, or Spanish 101? How does that actually contribute to my main efforts? It doesn't. It's not enough. But they add up. Does adding some vegetables to your meal make you a nutritionist? Does taking your trash out make you a sanitization expert? No, but the further we get away from these requirements, the further we get away from ourselves, and the more we get away from our goal. The further we get away from ourselves, the more we forget how to be with ourselves. And in this day and age we run right to the internet who quite literally preys (and prays) on all of our insecurities. Somebody is selling some panacea somewhere. Somebody has EXACTLY what you need to make more money, get a better jaw line, improve your thigh gap, get a couple inches taller, whatever it is you hate about yourself. "The rest of the world" is telling you what you need to do, but it's like walking down a market street. Imagine going to the grocery store, you turn down an alleyway because you heard it's a shortcut, and as you're walking you get immediately bombarded by people who all seemingly work at those sunglasses huts and phone/internet stands and everyone is pulling you this way then that way, you lose your whole sense of direction and that's just like losing sense of your internal compass. Just to come out the other end and find out that wasn't a shortcut at all. You just crossed the block inside instead of outside. The grocery store is still the same distance sitting there on the corner. The point here is the answer isn't in all of that "externalization" it's in our focus. If we can find those moments to get out of the way of ourselves then we can better find our purpose through focus and through discipline because there's no more white noise clouding our vision. What stands in the way, becomes the way.
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