AND WHAT IF YOU JUST FREAKIN’ DID THE DAMN WORK?

The human mind will do just about anything to avoid having to actually do the work.

It’s easier to pretend there’s a valid reason that haven’t yet, than what it is to just do the thing. 

It’s easier to spend hours – your whole life even! – poring endlessly over possibility and assessing your blocks or worrying about tour mindset, than just to do the damn thing.

Those habits you don’t yet implement, meaning there’s not even a chance they will ever INTEGRATE?

If you just freakin’ did ’em, instead of eternally naval-gazing and going on some kind of emotional quest to see whether or not you actually want to do ’em, think you should really do ’em, know how to do ’em, or are going to ever get where you want if you DO do ’em –

you’d get there.

If you just DID THE WORK, but day in and day out, the way work is meant to be done, no matter what, the way it’s MEANT to be done, rather than based on the colour of the sky,

or whether or not you know WHY,

or whether or not you think you have it in you to TRY,

or whether or not you WANNA (*cue foot stamp*),

you’d get there.

If you just rolled up your sleeves, and WORKED, before you ended up once again letting your entire day be about all the things you could or should do, all the endless wondering and analysing and assessing and observing and then pretending that scrolling the ‘net for more ‘research’ means you actually did something –

you’d get there.

If you just made it about the simple and methodical process of wake up, do what you know you gotta do even if your mind is trying to talk you out of it, repeat,

you’d get there and in fact you’d BE there.

Success is built on habits.

Success is built on discipline.

Success is built on putting your inner BS aside to be addressed later IF IT ACTUALLY NEEDS TO BE, which often it doesn’t because the WORK IS THE CURE, and getting ON with it.

Success is one foot in front of the other because that is what you said to yourself you’d do,

and it’s who you know you’re meant to be.

But hey, I get it, maybe this doesn’t feel romantic or flowy or properly feminine or some shit to you.

Maybe it’s too direct, too bare-faced, too in YOUR face, and (*wahhhhhh*) what if it doesn’t feel ALIGNED? Aren’t I supposed to be tuning in, and making sure I ‘feel’ it?

And yeah.

Of course.

Of course it all should get to be based on what is right for YOU, what you know it’s meant to be.

But unless your tuning in shows you an endless stream of days of not actually stepping up, not sweeping bullshit to the wayside to do what’s gotta be done, not following through on the disciplines and habits that, whether or not you feel like you WANNA, definitely make you feel like THANK GOD I DID afterwards –

then your TUNING IN SHOULD BE SHOWING YOU THAT THIS BITCH?

Is defo meant to work.

Maybe the problem is that somewhere along the way you heard talk that work is a dirty word, a bad word, heck, I don’t know, it’s probably a toxic male white supremecist word if you ask half the internet.

BUT WHEN EXACTLY WERE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE ASKING HALF THE INTERNET ABOUT HOW YOU’RE MEANT TO BE?

Maybe the issue here is that if you were to kick your ass the WAY I KNOW YOU LIKE IT, you’d realise that you LIKE the push, you THRIVE on gettin’ your hustle on, and that whilst you of course know it all gets to come from soul, from alignment, from truth, THE truth is that your soul wants you to be out there bending and snapping and creating and unleashing and FLOODING THE WORLD WITH YOUR AWESOME and basically?

DOING WHAT IT TAKES NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES UNTIL IT MOTHERFUCKING TAKES TO CREATE THE LIFE YOU SAID YOU WOULD,

and know you can.

Look, it’s pretty black and white.

You’re either going to keep going to bed each night, another day filled with endless obsessive analysis or so-called plan-making,

and nothing of any note or regard never mind legacy EVER created,

and this will be your life.

Just do the math. You’re not going to create anything different than more of what you’re creating by your current busy emptiness, when all you ever do is perpetuate more of it.

OR –

you’re going to wake the fuck up.

Look around.

FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME, APPARENTLY.

And realise – 

HUH.

This shit ain’t gonna build itself. And that is not a BAD thing. Because this work, this doing, this showing up and following through on the things I continue to imagine myself one day doing, one day being, one day building an empire,

and maybe even a life from,

this work is GOOD.

This work is FLOW.

This work GIVES me all the things which, if I don’t do it, I will spend my life journaling and wondering and talking and plan-making about how to get!

And the whole entire time it was right there in front of me …

THE WHOLE ENTIRE TIME IT IS RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOU.

That means … NOW.

NOW is the time to put down the ‘how do I make everything feel perfect and flowy and supernatural’ brush, which is one of those cheap-ass Target brushes that never paints ANYTHING, and it’s time to pick up the brush you keep dismissing as less glamorous.

The ‘and then I just did the work’ brush.

And then I just sat my ass in the chair and without feeling ready or wanting to or knowing how or feeling the vibe of the thing, I just wrote. I just created. I just got my workout on. I just sold. I just published. I just pitched. I just BUILT A MOFO LIFE. That brush.

Thing is –

it’s right next to you.

Thing is –

All relentless wondering about how to use it or if you can or should is not, even after 100 years, gonna make the brush pick itself up and paint your life for you.

Thing is –

you don’t have 100 years.

Now get to fucking work.

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