Do what you Love!
August 04, 2007
When you give yourself – completely – to the Main Thing that preoccupies you… haunts and chases you down… insists that you find the seed within Its seed within Its seed… that Main Thing will do some powerful things through and for you:
- Your Main Thing will faithfully guide you to the people, places and information that you'll need to keep unpacking the seeds, and harvesting the fruit;
- Your Main Thing will cause you to lose out on a little sleep, and a lot of drivel… but you won’t mind, because your Main Thing is far more interesting and energizing to you than snoozin’ and small-talk;
- Your Main Thing will require some sacrifice, and at times you may even feel alienated from those around you. But, again, you won’t mind because your Main Thing is usually better company than those who keep trying to stuff you into a box… or a cubicle… or a doctrine… or a tradition... or some other shrinking device;
- Your Main Thing will refine and mature you... make you strong and solid enough to bring It into the world;
- Your Main Thing will take time to fully develop, but when it does… WATCH OUT!… ‘cause when your Main Thing is fully formed, It will have great impact – on you and others;
- Your Main Thing will change from time to time... It evolves just like you do... so you have to stay current with It, and yourself;
- Your Main Thing, should you neglect it, will surely find someone else to be its surrogate.
I believe we all have a Main Thing that is absolutely worthy of our urgent love and nurturing. We feel most alive when we’re attending to It. And we wait with the most hopeful anticipation for Its arrival. Be it academic, artistic, athletic, charitable, civic, cultural, entrepreneurial, environmental, inventive, medical, musical, parental, scientific, technological... whatever the realm or capacity, YOU have a Main Thing that’s awaiting your attention and commitment.
When you say “Yes” to It, the world will change. Thankfully. And should you say “No” to It, you will continue to wander and wonder…
I fervently believe all 6 billion+ inhabitants of the earth have the potential to revolutionize and improve our world in a meaningful way. We aren’t all afforded an equal opportunity to develop that potential. But those of us who do have the opportunity and choose, instead, to pretend we don’t know what’s tugging at our heart… that choice grants a special kind of suffering. Some call it boredom. Others may know it as restlessness. Many of us have felt it as a discontentment that just won’t go away.
That, my friend, is the invitation… to find out what your love is… and to do it.Stop making excuses. Start doing your love.
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