How Committed to Your Art are You

My art is not writing. My art is inspiring. You may think I would ask you what your art is. You’d be wrong. What I would like to ask of you is how committed to the art you love and how much are you willing to sacrifice to make that art the sole purpose of your life.

A few years back during a night of $1 well’s and random conversations, a brighter man than he realizes named Craig Ortega spoke directly to me. He said, “If you told me to do something, I would feel like I could do it.” That phrase is what changed my life. Unfortunately, I have not expressed such to Ortega enough, but it was what deterimined my purpose, my love.

What’s Your Love

Craig Ortega may not realize the power in his words and, unfortunately, I have not appreciated such enough, but his words have had a significant impact on my life. I am meant to change your life in a positive way. Helping others is the purpose of my life. Hopefully, my actions afford myself this opportunity. My goal from here forward is to make your goal a reality.

What I ask of you is to determine your love. Honestly, it is not as difficult as you may think. It can simply be answered by asking yourself what you love. What do you love?

I really don’t care what you love. All I care is that you do what you love. How difficult is it to commit your life to doing what your love. It is fairly simple in the world we live in. The opportunities are available to all of us no matter our race, sex, style, character, motivation, class, etc. All that matters is the energy we implement.

What Love Have You Embraced

A few years back, I started watching clips of this free-runner, gymnast Damien Walters. To say he takes life by the horns does him no justice. Take a look at what he does simply with his body and his passion…

 

Walters defines what it means to commit everything you have to your passion. There is no way he could take his body and do the things he does without dedicating everything he has to his love. Damien is committed to his art at the level 99% of us have yet to push our bodies to.

So, what makes us different than Walters? Honestly, most of us could be as physically fit. We each could probably attain that level of expertise at our art. The difference is simply that he commits everything he has and is to his art.

Do you commit everything to your art like Walters? I know I don’t, but I am taking the steps to change my approach and desire to attain the levels he has reached with his art with my own.

The Reality Is

I doubt. I ponder. I question. I often fail. The reality is that I do all of this to myself and you do to.

I hope you are a great success in life right now. If not, that is okay, but we are going to start heading in the right direction because what is more important to me than you being successful right now is being successful tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that and so on.

Recently, I was faced with another personal reality when I realized my blogging sucks…thanks to Everett Bogue in No One Cares. After properly thanking him, I went forward and developed a plan for what I was going to do to succeed. I planned. The reality is I hadn’t planned for success and no one really cared whether or not I did. Now, my mission is to care about your success. However, you have to make me care. You have to show me that you are committed whole-heartedly to your love. Otherwise, we are both wasting our time.

The reality is we have come up short in the realm of possibilities. We can and will do better. To make our art our reality, we first must make it our primary commitment in life.

How You Can Start Reaching Your Potential Today

What you may not realize is how simple it is to start. Yes, all I said was start.

I started this post days ago. In fact, you may have seen it go live (accidentally…twice). However, I had only started the work on this post. I wanted to hone my focus to create the post I present today. In fact, I actually wanted to write this post a while ago, but I kept telling myself reasons why not to start. Well, when I finally just started typing the first few hundred words, I found myself looking much deeper into this post. I started writing out a sketch of where I wanted this post to go. I started an Evernote note page for a few future post ideas. Lastly, I came up with some great ways to continue my growth. All of this came from just starting.

The day of completing this post, I read a directional post by Leo Babauta entitled How to Start (strongly suggest you read that post). In that post, Leo discusses how he thought about the barriers to success and the intimidation to even start. But then, he just started. He start with one action which snowballed into another and then another and so on. Now, he runs this super-ultra-productive-helpful-life-changing website. All from just starting.

You may be asking how this ties into what you love. Well, by just starting, you may find yourself meandering around all of the obstacles faster forward to your goal than you thought when standing idle. What you need to do is take that first step. That’s why I am hear.

What’s the Easiest Step You Can Take

How about this? Stop reading this after this sentence, go grab a piece of paper and pen, and write out five to seven 10 minute ways that you can start on your path. Those five to seven steps that you are taking will get you further than you were an hour or so prior. Think of that for a second. You commit about an hour of your day the art you love and want to be doing for the rest of your life. I’d say that isn’t as much a sacrifice as a catapult into your bright future.

Hopefully, you took my advice in that last paragraph. Now, what you can do with that is build. Build upon this small amount of momentum. Build your foundation of your daily efforts to support the growth that is to come so that when you are motivated and attempting to accomplish your art, you will be able to overcome any obstacle as your foundation is built on stone and not that of sand.

I Leave You With…

Today, I leave you with the thoughts of one of Damien Walters fellow parkour mates.

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