You’re too comfortable.

You convinced yourself that tomorrow, you’ll be better. That today, it’s ok to do the same shit. You’ll figure out what you really want to be doing with your life when the time is right. When the opportunity presents itself. When your personal, financial, and lifestyle needs are stable.

This path leads to a day when you look back on your life and wonder what the fuck happened to it.

What happened to doing work that made a dent in the universe?

What happened to spending everyday excited because you’re doing something fulfilling? Something so awesome it doesn’t feel like work — even though you’re paid to do it?

You are choosing easy mode when you decide that it is someone else’s destiny to solve the problems you care about.

It’s up to someone else to start something new. It’s up to someone else to become the world’s next disruptor, innovator, or tastemaker.

“That’s nice, but me…no I can’t be that.”

“I’m not lucky enough.”

“I’m not smart enough.”

“But __ says I need to do __ in order to get __ first.”

“I’m fine with where I am.”

Maybe you are.

Or maybe you’re at risk of settling. Maybe you’re letting pressure from all sources but yourself influence what you think is possible.

The expectations that overwhelm you from others are boxing you in. They are urging you to accept the standardized norms that target the plump average it thinks you’re a part of.

You are getting bombarded by forces that want you to conform to what’s expected of you. To fit in. To settle. To embrace the notion that you’re just part of a system that is designed for and run by others — never you, always someone else.

Today, you dream at night. But what if tomorrow you decide to dream by day? Can you take the time to reflect on what’s important and commit to doing something about it?

You can look at the world with a new lens. You can see it in an entirely different light. You don’t have to let each problem or annoyance in your life boil down to something you complain about and forget.

Instead, you can see those same problems as opportunities. You can see each issue as a puzzle to be solved. You can have a world in front of you ridden with challenges you can take up and start investigating.

You don’t have to be on the outside looking in. You don’t have to be on the sidelines or in the stands watching the “pros” do the work, play the game, get the jobs, start the companies, and solve the problems.

Don’t be that spectator.

Don’t sit on your ass with your popcorn and nachos rooting for someone else’s awesomeness.

Instead, you should learn how to crab:

You aren’t dreaming big enough.

Hell, most of us aren’t even dreaming at all.

Let’s change that.