Get Clear about which ‘Pain’ you are taking

Nothing in life is easy,

lets get that straight.

If you read my post about Inertia, you know what I mean!

After waiting for most of my early adult life (I was 26 when I REALLY realized this)

the inspiration and motivation I consumed started making sense.

It was something Sara Blakely posted and it was not the first time.

I read and find inspiration from her since a very long time.

But at this point (when I was 26), it made more sense. It was like I was waiting for someone to say it and my life changed.

My thought process changed.

How I looked at things changed. My mindset changed.

I immediately thought I have been wasting my time,

applying for job after job and getting rejected.

I was not looking for this job I realized,

what I was looking for was my calling,

my purpose,

my mission.

I confused my purpose with my job.

I keep my job, I do my job because it supports my life.

But my life, I realized is bigger than my job.

My life is my mission;

My intentional purpose.

I was running behind the wrong pain all this time.

The pain of external things,

the things I could not control.

I started looking at what I could control.

I started doing what I could for ME.

I started writing.

I felt better

Today I am far from where I want to be, but I am working to get closer every single day.

This is the pain I choose.

The pain of uncertainty

The pain of fumbling,

the pain of finding, doing, experimenting, not knowing if it will all work

But I choose this pain,

because I am clear on what I want to do.

what about you?

do you know which pain you are taking?

and why?