Wrote this one myself and put a lot of heart into it!
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Imagine you’re 90 years old, sitting in your rocking chair, looking back at your life. Do you think you’ll have any regrets? If you continue living the way that you’re living right now, will you be truly fulfilled when it’s all over?
If the answer is no then ask yourself why? Why would anyone reject the calling to become what they believe they have the potential to be?
Because we limit ourselves in an effort to avoid fear, failure, uncertainty, stress, discomfort or any sort of pain we think we’ll experience. So we build this highly effective prevention machine designed to protect us from having to struggle.
Destroy this machine.
Destroy the part of yourself that’s stopping you from living the incredible life you’re capable of creating. The part that strives to prevent the possibility of being rejected, embarrassed or ignored. Feel the pain that is holding you back. Feel it making you stronger. Feel yourself coming back to life as you take the first step towards the future you want.
And when that voice in your head says your pursuit is far-fetched, too difficult, too risky, impossible. Tell it that it’s okay if you think it can’t be done just don’t distract me while I do it.
Don’t allow the prevention machine to trick you into believing that if you keep it running then life will be easy. It’s not easy to settle for less when you know you’re capable of more. To be bored out of your mind sitting at a desk waiting for the weekend to come. It’s not easy to retreat. To ignore the path you know you need to take.
Because when you limit yourself then you don’t feel like yourself. Just some watered down version. You become the result of abiding by every self-imposed limitation that presented itself.
Never give up on something you can’t go one day without thinking about.
We all go through that – not doing the thing we know we have to do and instead taking a safer path that has a reward visible at the end. But that’s not your path. Yours is the crazy looking trail on the edge of a cliff with giant gaps and no end in sight.
Go there.
Go where you have less comfort and security but more passion and possibility. Embrace the struggle. Welcome uncertainty. And the more vulnerable you feel, the weaker the machine becomes until it breaks down completely.
There’s a certain freedom in that. The kind that comes from knowing that whatever force tries to stop you has no chance. Knowing that you’re giving life everything you have. Knowing that you're becoming all that you could be. You’ll wake up excited everyday with one mission – break walls and build bridges towards the most enlivening pursuit you can dream up.
Aren’t you tired of wondering what you’re truly capable of? Find out.
And when you’re 90 years old, sitting in your rocking chair looking back at your life, you’ll be fully satisfied. Truly fulfilled. You’ll be proud of the person you’ve become.