Do NOT trust your emotions. Some days you won’t feel like going home ’cause you’re gonna feel like the only thing waiting for you there is some kinda pain. Go home, anyway. Some day’s you won’t feel like going to work ’cause the only thing waiting for you there is an endless array of agendas you can’t control. Get to work, anyway. Some days you aren’t gonna feel like coaching your daughters soccer team cause the mothers are driving you crazy and the other fathers aren’t even there. Coach ’em all up, anyway.
Trust your purposes; your feelings, not so much.
Yesterday, during practice 164 Gurue and I drove home this point as best we could. We reminded the team to subject your process to your passion and your passion to your purpose. Purpose keeps you going even when you don’t much feel like going. Purpose for your marriage turns your car toward home even when your heart is hurting and wants to go anywhere but there. Purpose keeps you dialing for dollars even when the last son’bitch sold you some bunch of nothing. Purpose keeps you going when nobody much notices you’re on a mission. The world is filled with people and good intentions. The world is filled with people who do good work when times are, well, good. The world is filled with performers who are kinda like this years basketball version of the Kansas Jayhawks – erratic and unpredictable depending on the day.
Want a bit more consistency in your performance?
Get to work within, friend. Decide why you want your marriage to work, determine why you work, get clarity of why you want to give yourself to whatever form of charity. Find your deep why’s. Your problem, most likely, is you think you’ve already gotten to the root when in reality your sense of purpose is still just scratching the surface. Deep, rooted purposes take time and effort to cultivate. Purpose, purpose, purpose. Purpose. Passions will come and sometimes go. Your process will evolve and disciplines will be discovered. If you don’t deeply connect to your sense of purpose, when passion wanes or flames – you’ll burn out or up.
This is why we believe at BTL the world is missing the mark. We are way too soft and way too driven by passions dangling from some uncertain, uncommitted, and loosely defined set of purposes. We listen too much to our momentary passions. Great works and great lives are grounded in deep seated purposes. Purposes of your making. So, we suggest you rinse your purposes a bit more, my friend. ‘Cause when your sense of purpose is crystal clear, you’re gonna keep going even when you hardly feel like moving.
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