Krazy…

Today’s rant is not mine. It’s from Krazy. He is one of my best clients and you likely don’t know him. He’s not a CEO of a Big company. He’s not a head coach at THE ohio state university. He is a freakin’ maniac. He loves doing this work. He is becoming the original he’s meant to be. He is living a life of hard OPUS. I love this dude. He means the world to me. Fact. This is his writing from one day in BBTL. One day. He writes me everyday. Does. Not. Miss. If you want to be great. Write like this. Everyday. STOP wishing you had more time. Make time. Be who you are. Relentlessly pursue your aim. Remember this truth… productive actions flow from a well written mind.

Here’s Krazy:

THURSDAY Oct 12: Ambiguity · Ambiguity is not the enemy of excellence. · 20/20 clarity is mandatory. Constantly rinsing OPUS and CORE. · Take up residence just this side of chaos. · Clarity is the aim. Ambiguity is the game. · This allows following the rules, while breaking them in all the right places. · Bookend freedom and responsibility. · Life is paradox. Act in ambiguity.

Maturity is highly overrated. I spent most my life acting on instinct. Ignoring the rules. Jumping out front, ahead of the others. I was always jealous of those who so easily fell in line. So easily conformed to the standards. But I always failed at conformity. And since being a failure wasn’t an option, I operated outside of convention. Carved my own path.

But always wished I could be more normal. Conform. Fit in. Be less weird. Less independent.

I signed up to BTL to become more normal. Like those people I see all the time that seem to glide through life, following the rules, with a calm and balanced life. I’ve never had a mentor. Never had a teacher (other than asshole mediocre middle managers plodding through pointless irrelevant lives, gaining their only joy by holding down subordinates). Therefore, I never learned how to do anything like normal executives. Had to figure out my own weird way of getting things done. I joined BTL to learn how to achieve like normal people.

But I was wrong.

BTL taught me how to embrace my weirdness. How to gain clarity through my weirdness, and in my weirdness. How to love my weirdness. BTL has taught me to walk fully away from the façade of normal. I came hoping to eliminate my wildness. BTL taught me to first understand my wildness, then love my wildness, and finally to utilize and direct my wildness. But to never replace my wildness. I am wild and crazy and insane and brilliant and focused and alert and powerful.

Life is paradox. My brilliance is found in my insanity. God is a very creative artist. We are all originals. And beauty and discovery and salvation are found in the aggressive pursuit of who we are uniquely created to be. Therefore we are all weird. We are all insane. It’s just that some are insane in slightly less lunatic ways, while others go further off the grid. Clarity in ambiguity. Opus in chaos. Perpetual pursuit of answers that will never be found, a finish line that will never be reached. This is life.

I have been fascinated by watching the discoveries from the Webb telescope. Or more accurately, by the scientists behind the Webb telescope. They have spent their life in discovery, and building conclusions. But Webb has questioned some long held beliefs. And they respond by embracing the new information. They have no allegiance to their past beliefs. Their OPUS is perpetual discovery. Just as Aristotle wrote the first laws of gravity, which were demolished and rewritten by Newton, only to be demolished and rewritten by Einstein, to then be demolished and rewritten by Hawking. And they will again be demolished and rewritten again with new discoveries.

This is Krazy. This is my client. I will go to my grave knowing a few found their weirdness, their wildness, and their wonder too. Your job is not to freakin’ fit in. Your job, friend, is to become the original you already are. Your job is to live your dreams regardless the price. Pray for this. Pursue this. Play with this. Your life is your journey of discovery. Find joy in it all. Krazy, huh.

Live hard. Love harder. Krazy…