Designing a meaningful life, one that you love. is possible, but just doing what you love won’t make life any easier — it will just make you more disciplined, more joyful and you will not have to work at a job.
Creating more than you consume, while still enjoying quality time with the people that you care for, telling stories that inspire positive growth in others and staying healthy, financially independent with the freedom to do the creative work from wherever you please.
That’s a great definition of success.
Visions or goals are possible to achieve and anyone that tells you otherwise is a cynical person who’s given up on the abundance and beauty that life has to offer. The truth is, people will always project their fears and limiting beliefs onto others. What you must do is build a shield against this destructive and limiting chatter so you can proceed with your idea of succes unhindered.
One way of doing this is what we covered on a previous post, Share your successes and not your ultimate goal and vision.
Please remember, if you’re waiting for someone to give you the permission to get started on designing the life that you want, you may have to wait forever. There are very few people going to come along and push or help you onto the path that you desire. You have be self-disciplined and push yourself. Nobody is going to be there to give you the approval to be yourself.
The only approval you should care about or need is your own.
Your first step is to:
- Take responsibility for it. Define what makes life worth living for you, and then design your life around that.
- Recognize that doing what you love won’t make life any easier. The fact is, you’ll find it more difficult initially to edge it out your way. Some days may be harder, really hard. You may have to work extended hours.
- You will doubt yourself, especially if you continue to listen to the chatter from those who gain most from your failure. You will question everything. And yet, those are the biggest signs of growth and renewal.
Stick with it and see it through. The best way to prove the nay-sayers wrong is your very success.
As per the beautiful words of Rumi;
“let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” And that’s because there’s magic in doing what you love: You’ll prioritize it, you’ll become more disciplined for it, you’ll enjoy the process of working toward it, and once you get into your flow, it will rarely feel like work.