“If you could wake up excited every morning and do the one thing that you love everyday, what would it be?”
This was the question my friend Yahnny Adolfo San Luis-Wallgren asked me during our long overdue heart-to-heart call this morning.
“Hmmm,” I started. “It would involve three things – writing, photography, and traveling. Maybe as a resident storyteller somewhere. In short, all what I do now, but without the burden of having to worry about finances.”
I already know my “WHY” and “WHAT”, but the “HOW” often eludes me.
The “HOW” often eludes most of us who are living out our purpose.
After that beautiful conversation, I went right into another soulful one with my friend Baiba Žiga, where we talked about life coming full circle, and pulling us back to spaces of healing, so we can continue to grow and evolve.
Our conversation was about redefining what success truly means. We talked about the world’s 1% making insane amounts of money per hour, and the disingenuity of it all.
For me, success is about the freedom and flexibility that comes with tearing yourself away from following someone else’s standard. Not dimming your light for someone who you would never even take advice from in your personal life.
“It’s also about taking care of our communities,” Baiba said. “About charging the big bucks in service to our communities, building generational wealth, and creating alliances to co-create. The moment we start organizing as communities, we’re so much stronger.”
So, I asked Baiba the same question Yahnny asked me.
“If you could wake up excited every morning and do the one thing that you love everyday, what would it be?”
“I already wake up excited with the possibility of my own potential even though I don’t know where all this is heading,” Baiba told me. “I’m showing up with intention and doing my part. I’m starting and finishing the day by loving myself through meditation, exercise, good food, reading, and just taking care of myself in different ways.”
“I don’t worry about the ‘HOW'”, Baiba went on to say. “The ‘HOW’ is the work of the divine.”
And that was the reminder I needed…
The “HOW” is the work of the divine.
The “WHAT” is your intention and what you can control
The “WHY” is that feeling of excitement you get when you wake up to do what you love, even if you can’t put words to that feeling yet.
As I live out my word of the year “MANIFEST“, I will no longer worry about the “HOW” and leave that part up to the divine. To God. To the Universe.
So, I pose the same question to you: “If you could wake up excited every morning and do the one thing that you love everyday, what would it be?”