It doesn’t have to lead to anything. It doesn’t need to be finished. It doesn’t have to be perfect, or ground-breaking. It might never see the light of day, you may never receive praise for it, reveal it to another pair of eyes. But either way, you must do it.
You know exactly what I am talking about.
For the chance of even seeing it to fruition, the only way there is to do it. Do the thing. Make the move. Advance in the direction.
You’re thinking of the thing of which I am speaking.
The human mind is a trickster. It will run hide, spin, pirouette, perform all the manoeuvres to drag you away from the thing you should be doing. It gnaws at you when you aren’t, keeps you up when you didn’t, drives you mad when you haven’t.
You know.
A reminder. It just needs to be done. No matter how, or with what. The tools aren’t necessary. They can be upgraded. None of them are perfect. None will truly suffice. The mind will look for more. It will create more barriers, make more demands.
Do it anyway.
Why does it have to be done? Because it does. That is the end of it. You have to do it because you have to do it. There is wisdom in this. There is no more rationalization needed. The things you know you must do must be done because you know you must do them. Argue with yourself if you like, you’ll still arrive back to the same conclusion.
Avoid at your peril.
A healthy psyche is not a mystery. Food, shelter, a social outlet, and finally you doing what you know you must be doing.
I don’t know why we make it so hard. Or perhaps I do. Perhaps everything that we make hard for ourselves is simply out of fear. Fear of failure, fear of missing out, fear or falling short, fear of being bored, scared, sad, weak.
Fear is such a motivator, but you fear the wrong things. You fear the things that cannot hurt you. You fear the things that have no bearing on your happiness or peace of mind. You fear while forgetting that courage has its roots in fear. Courage is born of it, it does not exist without it. You fear while never engaging with fears glorious counterpart.
But you can develop your courage. And it is as simple as simply doing. Doing that thing which you know you should.
If you think you don’t know what it is, that too is your fear response. You know. You could sit it in silence for five minutes and ask yourself what you want and the answer will be right there.
Or you could just go ahead and do it.
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