MJ DeMarco's email newsletter directed me to this video:
And I just want to say to this creator: thank you, you're absolutely right.
I've been sitting on a goldmine of information for years now, but I've done little to nothing about it.
Yet, as the video eloquently points out, the information is nothing if I never do anything with it.
Idea without execution? It's as if the idea never existed.
Yet this piece of information - that knowledge is not power but mere potential - is of no value to me if I do not act on it.
Ahhh, how this brings to mind the character Max in Michael Mann's Collateral (2004). He dreams of his own limo company, he dreams of calling the girl, but he will never actually do it - because by not doing it he can live in the bliss of having the potential of having his dreams come true someday, instead of going for it and then finding out that the dreams were impossible all along.
And living in hope is so much easier than risking the crushing of your soul.
Of course, the price to pay for this easiness and bliss is regret in the end.
Then again, it takes massive balls to face your greatest fear.
Meanwhile, if I keep going back and forth like this, perhaps I'll run out of time anyway.
RK out.
