Every day is a chase.
I bounce out of bed and go after it.
All day I’m going after it and often through the night.
What exactly I’m going after is still in some ways elusive to me!
That’s why I’m going after it.
Why?
Why do what you do?
You wake up every day, do your thing, go to bed, wake up to do another day.
In many ways this life is quite routine isn’t it and you can find yourself just ticking through the days.
That’s how it was for me back when I had a job.
They were great jobs but I wanted more.
More what?
No idea!
Hahahahahaha, do you see the pattern here?
Like for some two decades I’ve been going after it chasing this elusive thing I’m not even sure what it is.
My mission is I want to live in a better world and I’m doing everything I can to create it.
It’s not like I believe it’s realistic or little me can do very much at all.
But it’s an activator.
For what?
Going after it, of course!
Getting in the groove.
Unlocking potential.
Being on my edge.
Playing the game.
Finding ways.
When?
My best understanding is it’s a feeling we’re all chasing.
See, in the old days my brain was wired to believe “when” you achieve what you want then you feel how you want.
That’s what I perceive is going on inside each of us doing and getting and having all these things hoping to feel a certain way.
What I discovered over decades of chasing “when” is the game of chasing this feeling now.
The feeling of being alive.
Alive!
A favorite quote from back when I started this work is by American educator and civil rights pioneer Howard Thurman who apparently said—
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
That’s what I think I’m chasing every day.
This grandest feeling of being alive.
It’s how I love to feel.
Going after it!
Is a feeling.
And the world I dream.
Where every one of us is so alive every day chasing after your best thoughts, best feelings, best life.
Yes, to be sure, I’m an odd duck and maybe this is just me but it’s also who I see around me.
People waking up every day to chase going after it!