THE WRONG KIND OF FEAR; WHY CLARITY COMES WITH ACTION.

Everyone has an answer to that question.
You might spend all day with the kids travel the world, and finally establish that company or business.
You might dedicate some serious time to a business idea or perhaps with the right resources buy a new camera to take photos all day at the park.
Or maybe you’d just sit back and sip coffee on the porch with your spouse, embracing all the little things in life.
If you pry hard enough, everyone has an answer to this question and that’s an important clue.
The problem is so few of our lives look anything like what we want them to be.
What prevents us from living the life we long for is fear.
We fear the unknown and that we might lose our security, our reputation, our lives.
This is what keeps us from our life’s work and what numbs our awareness of the destiny mystery.
We are afraid of what we don’t know.
But the truth is you will never have clarity.
Fear, indecision, and not knowing these are the obstacles that keep you from moving forward.
And they never go away.
But if you are going to find what you were meant to do, you will have to act anyway.

Some wanted to be novelists; others aspired to start our agencies, companies, or businesses, or travel worldwide to make a documentary.
Each dreamer represented a unique and beautiful dream, some special skill the world needed.
Most people think they don’t know what their dream is.
But the truth is, you do know what your dream is
You’re just afraid to admit it.”
What if I don’t know what I am supposed to do?
What if I have no idea what my passion is?
These are the questions we ask when trying to figure out what we should do with our lives.
And they are good and excellent questions but they are not the right questions.
When we say we don’t know what to do, what we’re doing is asking something deeper.

And the answer is no. Of course not.
Nobody can promise that.
Most people waste the best years of their lives waiting for an adventure to come to them instead of going out and finding one.
They succumb to the status quo and dream of life being different someday.
Plagued with indecision, they wait, unsure of the right path to follow.
And as they wait, they miss an opportunity to live.
The only smart choice is to move, not hold out for a better time, and choose a direction now.
Yes, you could fail, but we all know what happens when you try nothing.
Certainly, there will be bumps in the road, even wrong turns, but at least you will be moving.
We often think of destiny as something that comes to us, an epiphany that arrives when we least expect it.
But the truth is, in some ways, it’s already come.
You already have some sense of what you’re supposed to do with your life, even if you aren’t sure what it is.
The trick is to find your vocation hidden in your life.
Most of us go looking for answers that are already in us.
We all want to “just know” what we’re supposed to do with our lives, for our purpose to be spelled out for us, but that’s not how destiny works.
It’s never clear and hardly ever obvious, especially when you’re starting.
But when you start to take those first steps, when you commit to some course of action, you begin to see what was there all along.

We understand we each have a part to play in a bigger story.
Even if we aren’t sure what that is, we know there’s something.
Those “lucky” few who find their paths testify to this.
They knew there was a purpose out there, and they were determined to find it.
The way that they did this was by taking the first step, by overcoming the myth that “you just know” and deciding to act anyway.

At a certain point, you must acknowledge this nudge, the hint of a whisper that says life has been holding out on you.
We all have some understanding of what we’re supposed to do with our lives.
We may not realize it or perhaps we lost it, but it’s there, waiting to be uncovered.
What we need, then, is not a map, but a shovel a set of tools to start digging.
I used to think destiny was something you just knew you had, and if you didn’t know then you weren’t called.
But I’ve come to understand that’s not the case at all.
Destiny is what you have when you look back at your life and make sense of what it’s been trying to teach you all along.

Finding yours will require a fear-facing journey that will last a lifetime.
And where does it begin?
With awareness.
With discovering what your life is already saying to you.
As you attempt to uncover this mystery, consider one more question, a much more constructive one:
What happens if I don’t do this?
That’s what should scare you.