Imagine Greatly

Think Big, Don’t Settle

This morning, Jeff Goin’s email reads, “No. You can’t. Because this is when you’re just beginning to see the habit form: when it hurts, when you’d rather give up. When you’re about to quit.”

This is a large theme in my life at the moment, and it has many subtle levels.

It all starts with having more fun, being more light, and not taking things so damn seriously.

When I feel resistance I know it is a nudge towards growth in some direction. Habitually, when confronted with resistance, I would run away, half-ass it, or make excuses. Pretending like I got the most out of it, and maybe extracting a little, but never actually pushing myself as much as I could have.

I would do this because of underlying beliefs and definitions I had created.

For example,

“I’m not knowledgable or good enough yet.”

“Everybody is going to see right through my cover and my inadequacy will be revealed”

“I am not confident enough, and frankly, just don’t want to do that.”

I am mostly pointing to anxiety. Anxiety is actually excitement masked as fear. We get anxious when we are heading in our chosen direction of life, making our next big move.

This means that it’s an all stakes game, right? Everything you have constructed and held to the highest might just crumble!

…soooooo not true.

This experience might be different for you, but it has been my elementary definition of progress, and consequently success.

This is me being hard on myself — but it is playful and fun. I could totally just revel in how great I am and how far I have come in my short amount of time on this planet. I could forget all about this ‘re-defining’ nonsense ;).

The thing is, we have no idea how great we truly are, at least not yet. We take what is in front of us to heart — so seriously — and we let it define ourselves and our world.

What if…what we truly are… is not even perceivable to us right now… because we have no context for it.

What if… we can reach our unimaginable highest potential? What would that look like? Does that excite you? It excites me. Deeply.

We must adhere to new laws. Dig up the deep-seated definitions of resistance. Let’s all show ourselves more, be consistently more vulnerable — become transparent beings.

Nobody is taking opportunity away from another, and you always have the capacity to create your own opportunities.

Let’s even take this a step further…

What if you didn’t have to strive to obtain that model of your ‘dream life’ and you had the faith in yourself to create it from scratch?

Personally, it looks this for me:

Instead of waking up and identifying as a photographer and trying to imitate a successful photographer’s day-to-day in order to have a successful business…

Let’s say I let go of knowing and allow the journey to become more malleable and less restricted. In this moment-to-moment awareness and exploration I allow my intuition to guide me into my highest potential.

Instead of just being a ‘successful photographer’, what if I became a world traveling program leader. I integrate and connect cultures by the doorway of critical and creative thought — and photography/art were integral parts of the program.

I’m not sure what that would really look like, how it would work, or how I would get there.

But I am not playing small and I am not cramming my existence into a structure that has already been made for me.