Have you ever felt stuck? You wake up every single day and nothing is different than the day before? You keep promising yourself change, but nothing changes. That was me. Ideas swirled in abundance and the desire burned, but still, I was plagued with inertia. I want ______ and I want ______ I kept telling myself over and over. And while dreaming and identifying your desires are important, they’re simply pieces of a much bigger puzzle.
You can’t live in a state of inaction and expect to live the life you dream of. It’s simply impossible. In order to do the thing you have to do the thing.There were two words placed on my heart at the beginning of this year. DO was one of them. CREATE was the other. So one morning I woke up and said screw it, I’m doing it. I’m just going to create and keep on creating.
I have a somewhat unfortunate but also really exciting secret to share with you. In order to change your life, you have to change your life. I was in a state of waiting. I have no idea what exactly it was I was waiting for, but there I sat, primed and ready. Maybe I was waiting for the right time, a clue from the universe or a publisher to come knocking at my door and beg me to write my next book. Or maybe it was all of the above. The truth is, you’re never going to have what you want unless you take the steps necessary to have what you want.
The sad truth of it all is that change takes work. Change takes change. It’s uncomfortable and scary and chock-full of unknown variables. But if you’re in it for the process instead of the final product or destination, it becomes way less scary.
I like to write. Simple as that. I never feel more like myself than when I’m tapping away at a keyboard. No, I don’t always know what’s going to come in the end. Hell, I wrote Yeah, maybe in 2009/2010 and I’m just now releasing it in paperback. So clearly it wasn’t about the final product in the end. The point was to just do it.
We put way too much pressure on ourselves. We fool ourselves into thinking that everything we do has to be for a greater purpose. What if you just do it because you enjoy it and see what comes of it?
So in an attempt to introduce a much-needed change into my life, I decided to challenge myself into making writing a daily habit again. 1500 words a day for 30 days = a book.
People have been asking for a second book. I’ve been wanting to write a second book. So, writing the book seemed like the most logical next step. This draft doesn’t have to be anything amazing, I just have to do it. Once it’s all down on paper, it’s much easier to develop it into something people might actually want to read. But if kept sitting idle in my state of waiting, nothing was ever going to happen.
So maybe you’re waiting for permission. Maybe you’re waiting for a sign. Maybe you’re waiting for someone to tell you to just do the damn thing. Consider this all of those things.
Just do the thing, friend.
My deadline is May 6th. If you care to join me in your own 30-day project, comment down below. I’d be happy to act as an accountability partner for anyone willing to take the steps necessary to change their lives.
You can do it, I believe in you.
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