#HUSTLEFLOWLIFE, THOSE NOT CALLED FOR MORE NEED NOT APPLY
The #hustleflowlife is the life for those born to be wild, and crazy, and creative, and free, the ones amongst us, the ones LIKE us, who just won’t stop.
Don’t want to –
Can’t!
It’s a life fuelled by caffeine and dreams, where we get up early, stay up late, run at a million miles an hour and THEN some, do it all and have it all and BECOME it all, do what it TAKES –
No matter what it takes –
Until it takes, and you know what else?
WITH fucking purpose.
The #hustleflowlife is the life you dream of, the life you’re scared of, it’s the life you’ve TOLD yourself (on repeat), and been convinced by the world (on repeat), you can’t have and probably SHOULDN’T.
Because, you know –
It’s BADDDDDD (scary face!) to push *too* hard, well, you know, apparently there are RULES about what ‘too hard’ means. Apparently the world at large knows better than you about what you need! Apparently you’re not DOING it right (success … life … and probably your hair, too!) if you’ve got a lot of balls in the air all at once and you somehow feel like everyday is blending into the next as you move faster –
And faster –
AND faster – !
And those who are NOT like us, and NOT called for the #hustleflowlife, or else are buying into the story that to SLAY LIFE is a very bad thing, a very bad thing indeed, they will tell us:
(ESPECIALLY as women!) –
Slow down honey.
You’re DOING TOO MUCH.
You’re BEING too much.
You’re GOING to burn out!
And here is what you must say to them, well really, it’s what you must say to yourSELF; no need to explain yourself to anybody –
Firstly.
(And I got this one from Grant Cardone; I love it!) – how the FUCK am I gonna burn out? I’m not a CANDLE. I don’t have an END, not while I’m still kicking!
Crash, burn, stop being SCARED of it. No I don’t mean avoid rest, stillness, if you need it, when you need it; ALWAYS give yourself what you need, but that’s my POINT.
How many multi-passionate do it all want it all be it all NOW, creators are living in FEAR of doing too MUCH and therefore not pressing play?
I’ll tell you how many, why yes I will:
A lot.
A LOT a lot.
And maybe
even
YOU!
Next. SECONDLY! Let’s talk about who you ARE. This point around giving yourself what you NEED, well, at what point precisely did you decide that what YOU need is what other people think you need, tell you you need, kinda COMMAND and WANT you to need, so that they can be validated needing what THEY want?
I don’t know that you ever DID really buy into that, but yet here you are –
Living life like you signed a fucking contract to not press play.
TRYING to slow down.
TRYING to do it right.
TRYING to not BE.
Who you are.
And slowly
But surely
You’re fading
Languising
Becoming
Bloated
By life
By your own self
And losing
Your way
And you wonder – really?! – why it is you struggle so much to get up in the morning, why you feel so DOWN, so FLAT, so disheartened, why you can’t seem to get going on ANYTHING, and you’re getting FAT as WELL?
It’s because you forgot who you are.
It’s because you listened when you were told it’s wrong.
It’s because you bought INto the lie, and now you’re giving it your LIFE.
SAY IT WITH ME, “I DON’T NEED TO SLOW DOWN AND BREATHE, I NEED TO WAKE UP AND LIVE!”
HARDER
FASTER
BIGGER
MORE BADASS
MOREEEEEEEEE!
NO, not more for the sake of more, for any moron’s reading this and shaking their heads in woe at my cavalier attitude and DON’T I KNOW PEOPLE SHOULDN’T DO TOO MUCH OR THEY MIGHT DIEEEEEEEEE?
More for the sake of purpose.
More for the sake of being lit the fuck up.
More for the sake of FLOW.
More because it’s WHO YOU FUCKING ARE AND WHAT YOU LIVE AND BREATHE FOR AND IF YOU DON’T LIVE FOR WHAT’S INSIDE OF YOU, well –
You’ll die with it still there.
And right now –
You kinda feel like –
YOU MIGHT AS WELL BE.
So here’s the thing, here’s the deal, here is what you already KNOW to be true, but perhaps you need me to remind you, to prompt you, to KICK you firmly up that ever-expanding ass, the one that’s just keeping on growing because you’re not living your damn LIFE like you know you’re meant to.
The thing:
(Serious faces now, PLEASE!)
You’re happier when you do more.
You feel more energised when you’re flowing and flying from one thing to the next.
You feel ALIVE when you allow yourself to RESPOND to what’s inside of you, but NO not put it on a motherfucking list or save it for when you have more time or space, instead when you action it NOW.
You’re happiest when you’re PUSHING, when you’re STRIVING, when life is leaving you breathless, and twirled around and around and around and AROUND, when it’s swinging you by the waist and you’re DANCING with it and you’re LOVING it and you’re LAUGHING and flying
So
Damn
Fast
And it feels SO
Damn
GOOD
You’re on FIRE, you’re CHARGED, it’s like you’re becoming stronger and brighter in all AREAS, too.
More SEXUAL.
More AWAKE.
More ENERGISED.
And you notice –
You need less food.
You don’t care about the crappy junk either; you’re fueled by LIFE.
You need less sleep.
You can THINK faster, almost SEE faster, and DEFINITELY move and create faster, the more you respond TO the drive for more.
You’re LIMITLESS and it’s as though you’ve become SUPERHUMAN.
THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS –
To be the 1% within the 1% who GETS that superhuman is a fucking SWITCH you can flick, and it’s right there inside of you, and ALL it is, all it is ALL it is, is saying yes –
To you.
To what’s always been there.
And is NEVER going away.
So.
You can continue, if you like –
Playing by the rules, if you like –
Listening to people whose approach to life frankly bores and numbs you, or who are just so damn convincing at telling you how not to BE you, that you ALMOST believe them.
If you like, you CAN and MAY follow the ways
Of the world.
OR
You can give in
To hustle
To flow
To the push
To CREATING
To LAUGHING
To THRIVING
To MORE
All of which is a very long-winded fucking way of saying?
BE.
FUCKING.
YOU.
Sooner or later, REALLY –
Don’t you WANT to give in to being you?
THE WAY YOU WERE BORN TO.
I love you.
Thank you.
Good luck.
And good night.
