"It is important that you get clear for yourself that your only access
to impacting life is
action.
The world does not care what you intend, how committed you are, how
you feel, or what you think, and certainly it has no interest in what
you want and don't want. Take a look at life as it is lived and see
for yourself that the world only moves for you when you
act."
...
"To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's
action.
To live is to be in
action."
When I wake up early in the morning, it isn't always into a great
space. Very often it is. But when I tell the truth about it, sometimes
it isn't. And if it isn't a great space, I notice I don't want life so
much anymore - in fact I resent it. When I wake up into this depressed,
not so great space, this is the way it is (that much is clear) and I
don't like it. So I tell myself that if I lay in bed a few minutes
longer and / or doze off a little longer, I'll feel better ... and
then I'll get up. So I lay in bed a few minutes longer and
doze off a little longer ... and yet it never seems to make one god-damned bit of
difference: whatever not so great space I woke up into, is still there
- only now it's actually worse, given there's the added disappointment
and resentment of having discovered I can't make it go away by sleeping
in longer.
It seems certain that the not so great space I woke up into, will
persist and will drag my day down. So eventually I get out of bed (it's
time to) albeit resentfully, negatively, expecting the worst. And
immediately there's a shift. Amazing. It's like a miracle.
Wow! Eureka! Something happens to that not so great space
when I get up, and I don't know what it is. But that not so great space
is gone - or at least massively diminished. As if by
accident, I've discovered the antidote (if you will) to this not so
great space that I sometimes wake up into, isn't laying in bed longer,
nor is it dozing off a little longer. The antidote is being in
action.
The moment I'm in
action,
it's gone, vanished, nowhere to be found. Like magic. I don't know how.
I don't know why. I'm just glad it's gone.
Look: given the way I've assumed life should work, that's actually
quite profound. I've looked for ways to have that not so great space
not be there ever ie not showing up ever - none of which has ever
worked or made any difference. When it's there it's there, just waiting
for me in the morning. But it goes away tout de suite, given the
onset of
action.
That's the miracle. And it doesn't have to be any specific
action,
like something pre-planned. Sure, it could be something
specific. But it doesn't have to be.
Action,
in and of itself, is the cure for it. I don't know why it works that
way. But I don't have to know why it works, for it to
work. What I know, is that it works. That's life: being in
action.
And until I'm in
action,
I notice I don't like it as much.
Once I get that, while there may not be much doubt in the fact that
action
is its antidote, I realize I have choice in the matter of what
actions
I'll take on. I've made an unrelated commitment to myself to take on
creativeactions
ie
actions
that brings something forth that otherwise wasn't going to come forth
by itself. Writing these Conversations For Transformation is my
expression of that commitment. And then the question becomes: if I can
take on being
active
at any time (as the antidote to not liking the not so great space life
sometimes serves up in its absence), can I take on
creativeactionall the time (is that even a
possibility?)
or are there limits to how often and for how long a person can actually
be
creative
without letup? Can the gold flashing
"Creating
now ..." switch be turned on, then welded open so that it
stays in the "on" position? Is that even an option? Or are there limits
to for how long we can be
creative,
without needing or having to take a break?
Try this on for size: one way I've figured out to make this work, is
to declare a context, a context of living a
created
life, a life in which everything I do is a
created
piece of my whole life. So I'm not just being
creative
/
active
in only the project at hand. It's I'm being
creative
/
active
in the broader context of living a created life, of which every
creative
project is merely a piece. When I do that, then I do everything I do,
within the context of living a
created
life. That's how to be
creative
ongoingly, all the time: by inventing a context in which to be
creativeinexorably.
So ordinarily, you can be
creatively
in
actionintermittently with this project, then with that project.
But extraordinarily, within the invented context of living a
created
life, you can be
creatively
in
actioninexorably.
That's how you do it.
