Stacking Wins
Art of Renaissance
In terms of making major changes in life, we often fault at the unknown. Many times, we can allow that unknown to immobilize us, paralyze us with fear, and move us into more inaction than definite change.
When we take a leap of faith, we’re really free falling. There are many ways we can deal with the rush of falling through the air.
We can focus on the gut feeling and hold onto how scary it is
We can look at the ground and feel that we are inevitable going to splat
We can in joy the ride and be present in the thrill of it
The mystique of it all is that we are already in the air, whether we’re attached to a hand hoisting us above the ground, or we’re floating with ease alone in the clouds.
If we can accept sooner than later, that this life will always be a free fall through the sky, we will find ourselves less attached to the things that can prove to be a lie. Those things being the false narratives we tell ourselves about how things will be. I can tell you one thing, and maybe I’m rewording something I heard at the end of this podcast, when I finally put my hands on that steering wheel from my mind, it will feel less than what it is - because I’ve already envisioned it a thousand times. When I open my account to exuberant amounts, the joy won’t be as real as the confirmation that I accomplished that in which my mind’s eye had set out.
Visualization is an important key in creating your desired reality, it is also the thing that will remind you that the external is little, if anything, in meaning.
The most important win is the one from within. When they say ‘It’s the journey, not the destination’ - they meant it.
It’s the relationships we foster along the way, it is the small/major frustrations we overcame, it is the love we got to share, the experiences we set out on, the people mentored, the things we decided we were going to do because our purpose showed us we were meant to make it there, no other force will show us otherwise. Simply ourselves.
So stack every minute and second you can, as a win, on this short path to an ultimate end. Whether you believe in eternal life or not is irrelevant here. If you want to live here forever, be my guest. I am not going to waste extra time seeking immortality when life all around is showing me it intends to end. We can say Trees live thousands of years and to be like them, and I agree with those philosophies. I also tend gardens, and realize that a plant unattended is killed by an invasion of weeds.
Those two perspectives will almost surely guarantee a long life, knowing that you must make it past infantry and youth, surviving the weeds that attack you, to become a robust, formidable Oak in the garden that is a pillar for more life all around.
I hope you live long and never choke, on the massive goals you made with no intention to joke. Stay humble and go hard. 🥂🤤