Day 26 - Your Vision is Everything
Everything.
Often, people get distracted from what they really want.
They allow the newest carrot on a stick to guide them blindly until they inevitably walk off a cliff, literally or metaphorically.
Have a roadmap. Don’t have one? Make it.
This doesn’t mean you can’t have room for creative freedom. This allows you to spend MORE time on your craft, whatever that may be.
Just like a master artist, musician, or sculptor can visualize their work before it’s even made. Some jump into it with no idea what they’re going to make. Many people chalk this up to talent or some unachievable trait.
This is not the case.
They are guided by a subconscious vision. There’s order inside the chaos. Chaos inside the order. Without it, there’s no meaning behind the work.
The same goes for life.
Shouldn’t you same discipline and focus go into guiding your life?
Even if you want to live a relatively average life, that takes time, effort, and maintenance. Everyone’s got bills to pay, work to do, etc. If you’re fortunate enough to not, someone else did and does to maintain that for you.
Create space to find what you truly want. Build your life around that. Create the ideal and take steps towards that. Obsessively.
How you implement is a different story. You must test & learn often. Know how you roll. Know what makes you tick. Observe how you most easily adopt a new habit.
Start off with one thing you do daily. Build from there.
You become what you hold highest and think of most. Find others on the same pursuit. Change. Or self-reflect enough to know that a change is not needed. You may not realize what’s causing strife in your life yet. Reflect, but ground yourself in the present.
Keep building.
Much love,
Nick