eat anything but Italian food. Ever. Ninety years of uninterrupted pasta.
They’re just being true to who they are.
All living things come hardwired with certain traits and characteristics
that are part of our nature. Meaning that these things come naturally to us,
they’re what we’re meant to do and they’re how Universal Intelligence
flows through us best. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, the guy next to me at
the coffee shop right now gotta eat his granola with his fingers. When we
push against who we naturally are,
we feel stress, things don’t progress
easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, everything is an
effort. This is why listening to what everyone else thinks you should be
doing (including your scaredy-cat self) is so deadly. You wind up trying to
force your way through life, which can make sitting on your butt at a desk
all day utterly exhausting if it’s not what you want to do. Meanwhile, when
you listen to your heart and connect with who you’re meant to become, you
have energy because you’re
in a state of flow, things happen more easily,
opportunities land in your lap, you’re turned on, inspired, engulfed in a sea
of brilliant ideas. Yes, there will be challenges and things will blow up in
your face, but learning experiences are different from wasting your life
pushing a boulder up a hill.
Pay attention to the things you’re drawn to, the things you’re good at, the
things you lose yourself in, the things
that make you stand up and say, “My
foot! I can’t feel my foot!” because you’ve been sitting in the same position
for hours, totally engrossed. Allow yourself to be pulled by your heart
instead of pushing your way through a thick fog of shoulds. So often we
discredit the things that come naturally because we’ve bought into the idea
that success needs to be difficult, or that if something comes easily to us, it
must come easily to everyone, and therefore isn’t worth pursuing in any
serious sort of way.
I have a friend who toiled away for years at a job as an advertising
executive that he loathed. He’s
an old buddy of mine who is, among other
things, a brilliant performer, pant wettingly hilarious, and the main reason
all my parties back in the day were so damn fun. He’d do things like wait
by the front door and announce each new arrival through a bullhorn made
out of a toilet paper roll: “Presenting Catherine Atkinson, of the once lived
next door to Jen Atkinsons. Please make her feel welcome by
complimenting her on her excellent posture.” He’d
organize impromptu
talent shows, music jams, and have willing guests sit for him while he
painted their portraits on crackers with spreadable cheese.
Not surprisingly, he was constantly getting asked to help organize and
host everything from bat mitzvahs to Thin Lizzy tribute nights, and while
he enjoyed the work and did it well, at the same time, it was, you know,
work.
He believed, however, that he couldn’t charge for this type of thing.
First of all, he had fun doing it, which for some reason meant he couldn’t
get paid. Second of all, he felt weird asking for money from his friends.
Lastly, he felt that anyone could herd people around an event and crack
jokes on stage. What value did he bring? He went on for years basically
working two jobs—the one he got paid for and hated and the one he loved
that made his eyes look like two pissholes in a snowbank from exhaustion.
Then one fateful day, he saw a professional MC at some corporate
advertising event he had to go to for work. The guy was not only getting
paid, a lot, but he was nowhere near as hilarious,
charming, or adored by
the crowd as was my pal.
I’m pleased to report that this guy was so profoundly bad, and pissed my
friend off so massively, that he finally got over his attachment to can’t,
shouldn’t, and wouldn’t, and started charging for his brilliant MC services.
He also asked everyone he worked for to spread the word about his new
profession, and today is in high demand as a professional MC. By having
the audacity to follow his heart instead of his fears, he was able to quit his
hateful job and now spends his valuable time on Earth getting paid to be the
life of the party.
Your heart is the most powerful muscle in your body. Do what it says.
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