October 2019
Beginner
400 pages
7h 56m
English
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September 16Do Not Wait
No one is born into the world whose work / Is not born with them. / There is always work, / And tools to work with, for those who will; / And blessed are the horny hands of toil. / The busy world shoves angrily aside the person who stands with arms akimbo, / ntil occasion tells them what to do; / And they who wait to have their task marked out / Shall die and leave their errand unfulfilled.
James Russell Lowell—“A Glance Behind the Curtain” (1843)
Are you doing the work you were born to do? How do you know? What if it doesn't always feel like it even if it is?
How do you feel when you're not working, say, on Sunday? Calm, tense, like you're working?
Or when you're working, do you feel like time just flies, you're happy all the time, you don't even need coffee to get going in the morning? Maybe, but that's not usually how it works.
The hard truth is, the work you were born to do may not be the work you think you want to do—but your life may depend on your doing it.
No one has the answer (although others may tell you they do). There's no book that contains your path. You find it by looking for it, by exploring new ways and new ideas, and by paying attention.
By not waiting, by committing to finding the truth.
Challenge Question
- What are you waiting for that you should not?
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