What can you do when there’s nothing you can do?
You can choose to do nothing, you can choose to be still
What can you do when there’s no food in the house? You can choose to fast and learn who you become when your most primal urges start turning you into an animal and learn to master that
“If you do not have what you want, the truth is that you just don’t want it bad enough”
Tom Bilyeu
I know it might sound overly simplistic, and too out there in the ether but think about it for a moment
Wim Hof once swam under freezing water for the length of half a football field with one breath
Tim Ferris won the kickboxing world championship with absolutely no training and only 4 weeks to prepare
Steve Harvey walked into a comedy club for the first time in his life, won amateur night, quit his job the next day, was homeless for 3 years before becoming a multimillionaire and a standup comedy legend the world over
Remind me, what is your reasoning for not achieving what you want again?
The scariest thing about every single reason you have for not achieving anything and everything you want is that every last one of those reasons is true and real
- You don’t have enough money
- You don’t have the skills
- You don’t have the connections
- The experience
- The qualifications
- The support
- Yes it is a sexist, racist, discriminative industry
Go on, right all those reasons down, list each of them in painstaking detail
Done?
Now look up, look around you, take in every single detail of your environment
Did any of those reasons give you the give you the results you desire?
You have all the reasons stopping you from achieving your goal, do any of them help you achieve your goal?
“If you can introduce a few seconds between stimuli and reaction, you will have introduced choice”
Paul Ekman
I know you’re afraid, you know you’re afraid
That you might not make it, that you might not be good enough, that you might lose everything, that everyone might turn against you, that you might give up more than you think you can handle
But aren’t you more afraid of living the life some part of you knows you deserve?
What can you do when you have all the reasons in the world for why you can’t reach your goal?
- Choose to not go after it because (insert most compelling reason here)
- Or dream about it, research on it, droolingly yearn for it so much that you will literally dry up the ocean and split mountains in half to get it?
You have a choice, you’ve always had a choice
“To think clearly, you must have a calm mind”
The 14th Dalai Lama
Stop acting and reacting to every single provocation, learn to calm everything in you
Your mind, your heart, your breathing, your feelings, and then clarity will avail itself to you
Objectivity will be the seed of your eye and the choices you will make will be the fruits of your understanding of what is happening
And each choice will either be a step towards your goal or away from your goal but you will know it!
You get what I mean?
Just because you can’t have something doesn’t mean you can’t also choose to not have it
As strange as that may sound
Not having something but wanting it leaves you in lack and if you want it bad enough you can move the clouds to get it but if you do not want it bad enough to move the world for it, choose to not have it