DON’T WASTE YOUR LIFE - Best Motivational Video Speeches Compilation
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What are the foundations for building your dreams?
So, you have goals and aspirations. Beautiful. You have hopes and dreams. Incredible. But what are you doing about it? Because there's this equilibrium we have to create and maintain as we navigate our day-to-day lives. And no one addresses this, in my mind, better than Thoreau and Walden, When he states, if you've built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost.
How can daily actions shape our aspirations?
That's where they should be. Now put foundations under them. He addresses the very nature of creation, of dreaming, right? He says, you know, there's an element of idealism and aspiration, but you have to marry that with pragmatism. Keep your head focused on the mountaintop. Dream, aspire. Imagine what life could be, but don't spend your day in thought. Build the foundations. Put the foundations under that castle in the air by doing, by stepping, by every day creating one more stair in the staircase that will bring that new reality into existence. Over the years, I've talked a lot about Steven Pressfield's book, The War of Art. Really, the impact it's had on me, I think for good reason. Personally, I tend to gravitate away from structure.
In fact, unless I'm being deliberate and cognizant of how I'm planning my day, things can get messy pretty quickly. So I have to really be intentional about that. And there were times in 2014, 2015, 2016, where I had visions of building something big and meaningful and making an impact on the world. and I'd sit down to build it, whether it's write a speech, create a video or episode. And that particular day, I would feel like, you know, I just don't feel inspired. I wish I did, but hey, can't force creativity, right? I'd close my laptop, I'd get up and I'd move on. And it wasn't until I read Pressfield's book that I understood That's what every writer, speaker, creator, builder deals with. It's on us to say, no, I'm setting this timer for 90 minutes. I'm going to show up.
I'm going to pour my thoughts out, pour my heart and soul into this project. And if something comes from it, amazing. If it doesn't, that's okay. But over a long period of time, that's how consistency is established. That's the only way to create that necessary compounding that actually supports my goals and big picture and long-term vision. That dedicated effort is an example of putting foundations under the castle in the air. I don't think we do this intentionally, but there's often a misalignment between what we say we want and how we spend our time and how we live our lives. And just being honest, it's challenging to see these inconsistencies in ourselves. They sort of hide within our day-to-day lives.
Which is why that simple alignment exercise of asking, what do I want and Is what I'm doing bringing that to life so critical? It's why Thoreau's question so deeply resonates. I'm saying this now and I'll say it forever, the greatest changes in our lives will never be a product of some huge, complex, complicated series of moves. It won't be 4D chess, calculus, secret codes and strategies. It's like, no, critical change starts with some simple adjustments. Usually right at your feet, right? It's getting up earlier. It's cutting something out. Adding a new activity for 20 minutes a day, right? These are the things that are life changing. Doing the correct things simply and consistently. The old head in the clouds and feet on the ground adage. Dream like your life depends on it.
Think as big as you can. Have your eyes fixated on mountaintops. Just make sure that your feet are simultaneously moving, that one step at a time you are going that way. Sometimes building those foundations requires more deliberate action added to the day-to-day. Sometimes it means cutting away the outliers and excesses of our day-to-day. It means fully immersing yourself in what remains. In Elon Musk's most recent biography by Isaacson, a particular idea stood out to me. Elon is a man who is literally seeking to invest in and create a world above the cloud. He said something, and I'm paraphrasing, like, we need to free ourselves from the in-case mindset. We have so much excess just in case we need it.
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