Free Fuel For (real) Life

Posted by parkejladd on Jul 17, 2009 in Do Something You Love, Featured {Article} | 1 comment

We must come to a greater understanding of what actually fuels us. This is not simply a matter of minuscule contemplation. This is a matter of life versus death, of freedom versus imprisonment, of satisfaction versus emptiness, of energetic engagement versus lackluster, apathetic, life-long drudgery. This is the bridge between being lukewarm and burning fiery hot. This is the difference between average normals and those who are exponentially exceptional. What fuels you? What blazes so deeply within you that it just cannot be ignored any longer?

We tend to believe that our lives will go on forever. We convince ourselves that we’ll never grow out of our early 20′s. We assume that our best days are inevitably ahead of us…

…but what if you lost it all? What if everything that you currently hold near and dear suddenly disappears or is taken from your life? What if you wake up tomorrow morning and your house or your car or your family or your bank account or your business or your retirement stash or your dog or your feet or your wardrobe or your mental capacity or your boat or your kitchen cabinets overflowing with your food or your anything was suddenly non-existent? Could you, would you, still continue to thrive? Would you still have enough fuel–the right kind of fuel–to get through the day?

As people, vague as that may sound, we lose sight of what genuinely, deeply fuels us. We are easily distracted by possessions and silly material gains which, by way of self-permission, trick us into believing that they really are what truly fuels us. We get so caught up in random things that they actually start to define who we portray ourselves to be and eventually set the boundaries for who we believe we genuinely are.

What fuels you? If things are your source of motivation–why you wake up each morning, why you work, why you interact with others, why you serve, why you live–then you need to drain and refuel differently. What if you lost everything that you currently believe fuels you, that gives you the energy and nourishment to live each day? How would you respond?

Fuel up wisely.