Relentlessly pursuing health, success, or happiness can be exhausting and counterproductive.
Have you tried taking a sabbatical from the active pursuit?
How about doing nothing around your craft or goals for a week? Or maybe three if you want to be an overachiever at it 🙂
What will doing nothing tell you about the value and cost of your doing?
Are they distractions or signs that you are focusing on the wrong thing?
Those first days back at the gym, There is this good kind of sore.
It’s our muscles saying our hard work is paying off.
As we work out more, that soreness disappears. The reminder that we are doing good work and that our baby steps are enough disappears.
As we work out more, those baby steps no longer challenge us the way they used to.
Now, we have to take bigger steps, longer or with weights or on different terrain to experience that good kinda sore again.
When we flex our creativity muscles, the same happens. At first, any work will do. But over time, we feel understretched by the same creative work.
How can we get back to that good kinda sore?
Credibility means we are believable. That others have found value in us, enough to say “Hey, we trust them. They know their stuff.”
But credible feels sort of average, safe, normal, a bland vanillin.
What doesn’t feel average is incredible – by definition the opposite of credible.
Incredible is impossible to believe, immeasurable, fireworks and blows credible out of any body of water.
If you had to choose, wouldn’t you choose incredible?
A comfortable life is blah.
When everything is taken care of for you, you don’t even realize that there were problems needed to be fixed.
Automated technology tries to do it all for us. And when it doesn’t, there will be an uproarious crowd ready to declare war.
If you have a itch and there is always someone to scratch it for you, can you even say you had an itch?
Maybe they scratched it for you even before you knew there was an itch.
What if that is actually a disservice?
What if that itch is there to tell you something?
What would it mean to see that itch and scratch it yourself?