Nothing Ever Happens

Seth Godin reminds us (The forces of mediocrity):

“Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance..”

AND

“The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it’s unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.”

I look at it differently: It does not mean that great things are always difficult to achieve. It also doesn’t mean that one should be stubborn and hit his head to the wall until the wall breaks down (and he gets hurt).

Leaving an honest live, being true to yourself, doing things that challenge and inspire you- and really matter to you. It’s a quest for getting down to your core, to understand who you are and how you are defined by your limits.

The major resistance does not come from the outside, but is usually in the inside, it’s you, your hidden fears, vestigial feelings and your hard-wired neuron connections.

The outside world is a perfect mirror for you to observe yourself, and get to know you better. Be open to change yourself repetitively and grow. This is the meaning of LIFE.

life
O.E. life (dat. lif), from P.Gmc. *liba- (cf. O.N. lif “life, body,” Du. lijf “body,” O.H.G. lib “life,” Ger. Leib “body”), properly “continuance, perseverance,” from PIE *lip- “to remain, persevere, continue, live”