Mountains of Arizona
Sunny 56 Degrees
2:55 p.m.
Over the past year or two, I’ve experienced some crazy stuff, about 5% of which I touch on in this letter. The rest will come out in due time 🙂
But one of the crazier items on the list is that my sense of urgency has left the building.
Today, tomorrow, whatever. It doesn’t matter.
I understand that this is entrepreneurial heresy to anyone who is a “get it done” type of personality.
And our society applauds that type of individual for some reason. But “get it done,” from my perspective, is a terrible way to live. In fact, I’ve come to view it as a sickness against which I fortify myself.
“Get it done” is a self-conjured energetic state and is an enormous energy suck. Feeling urgency is ENERGY. That’s what’s making that feeling. And if that’s where you’re sending energy, you’re missing out on much better places to send it.
If you choose to experience “get it done,” you do it at the expense of the DEPTH of your experience.
Ultimately, I think the “get it done” obsession is simply a symptom of a deep fear of experiencing the NOW.
The NOW is not for the faint of heart.
Most people who’ve never been there might think it’s a passive place. After all, what’s getting done there?
But it’s not at ALL passive.
You’ve got to deal with a lot of your own shit when you sit in the NOW. You can’t run away from it because the NOW follows you everywhere you go!
When you stop rushing off to the next thing in both mind and body, your world really opens up. And in this world, the door swings INWARD to the deepest parts of yourself.
When you realize that time is simply a social agreement made up by SOMEONE and agreed to by the masses, then you really start to see things differently.
There is no time in the NOW, now is there?
Eventually you begin to see just how far the rabbit hole goes. The journey is endless.
Take your time. Everything happens when it should.