Partly Cloudy 77 Degrees – 2:06 p.m.
My oldest son’s days are what you might call “non-traditional.”
Right now, he’s out shooting videos for his mountain biking website. This is a picture of him on a nearby track.
I really couldn’t care less WHAT my kids do provided they do what they want to do.
Considering most adults have no idea how to accurately answer this “what do I want to do?” question for themselves, I take the responsibility pretty seriously for not screwing up this clarity my son has had about himself since birth.
Every kid has this ability. We start life knowing the truth about ourselves. We are trained to forget that truth. And then some of us work like hell to remember.
So far my son has gone through martial arts, video games, music (composing and playing), electronic music production, video and music editing and now mountain biking.
I could have followed my training and counseled him to “stick with it” until he got good at something.
I realize this is total B.S. to tell someone who isn’t you to do something like that.
I chose to stand back, shut my mouth, and watch an amazing human being work it out for himself. And he is.
At 12 he knows more about himself than I knew about myself at age 35. Granted, I took QUITE a detour through the system as a straight-A sheep. But that’s OK. That was the path I chose at the time.
“But he should be studying hard preparing for the future!” Ha! Only people who’ve been brainwashed into trading their precious lives for climbing the ladder to nowhere think things like that. I should know, I was one of them!
Preparing for the future, to me, is a silly thing when it’s done out of fear. The system says that’s irresponsible. I say not living your life without fear is irresponsible. So we’ll just agree to disagree.
Do you realize how much freedom is on the table for you to grab?
A limitless supply of freedom is available to you in your life and business. You literally can create everything as you want it to be.
But it’s hard to see if you’re looking at it with trained eyes. Sometimes, it takes untrained, uneducated, un-brainwashed eyes to see what the real possibilities are.
That’s why kids are such geniuses. They KNOW this.
There are things in life and business that give you energy and there are things in life and business that take it from you. This is a clue.
Figure out which is which for you and build your life and business so you can spend your time doing the things that give you energy.