Do, For the Sake of Doing

Content I found interesting:

This podcast with David Goggins, I am sure you know him.

If you don’t, be prepared to be deeply motivated.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/69QtiFgM7HP4mK2yZPKiut?si=yVmEJTl_Ts-1ZKaQsnWldA

Thoughts and realizations:

Are your actions aligned with your purpose?

Or do they take you further from it?

 

Do you feel fulfilled? Or do you feel as if all your achievements are hollow?

Do you feel complete? Or do you feel like everything you conquered comes with the same old emptiness?

 

Reflect for a bit.

Did more money ever made you happier? Or did it just bring comfort and nice things? Is comfort happiness?

Did more stuff ever made you more peaceful? Or did it turn you into the same old asshole but with more stuff?

 

Reflect for a bit.

What are fighting for?

Right now, what are you really searching for?

Money? Why do you need more?

Fame? Why do you need more?

 

You know money does not bring you closer to happiness, you know that more stuff does not fill the hole you feel inside, but why do you keep chasing it?

Are you willing to sacrifice your time, energy and peace for comfort? Or do you want something deeper?

Figure out what you are fighting for.

Then, figure out what you should be fighting for.

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The more you try to achieve something in life, the less successful you will be.

The will to achieve something pollutes all your actions, because you start to do things just to achieve others.

So, you will never do something for the sake of doing it, you will never be present, because your mind is at another place.

Mastery needs full commitment, you need to be fully focused on your task. There is no space for interests other than doing your work perfectly well.

If you seek money or fame, if you want to change the world, or to change people´s minds, you won’t become a master, because every task will be contaminated with impurities, your mind will be cluttered, preoccupied with outside things.

 

Now, are you doing something and expecting other things in return? That means you are not following your purpose.

You should find the work that speaks to you, that you can do just for the sheer joy of doing it.

You should find that thing that you can do indefinitely without expecting anything in return.

Forget everything else, this is your fight.

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Be

for the sake of

Being

 

Do

for the sake of

Doing

 

Do it for something else

and to Do, becomes to Work

 

Do it for itself

and to Do, becomes to Play

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Just like you read above, I have been thinking deeply about how we pollute all our actions with craving and aversion, how we do everything always expecting something back.

And I come to realize that I pollute my own self improvement with the expectation of one day reaching perfection. I pollute my own meditation with the expectation of becoming enlightened. I pollute my work with the expectation of it becoming great.

 

Maybe I need to have a goal bigger than myself.

Maybe I should try to bring wealth into this world so wealth will come my way.

Maybe I need to focus on illuminating others and not myself, that way I can drop my ego, and work for something much bigger than my own selfish mind.

Maybe, in trying to bring peace into this world I will be able to achieve peace myself.

(Did you notice that the motivation in these statements is still selfish? I am still trying to achieve peace, but I am hiding the motivation behind false compassion for others)

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Wanting peace steals you from peace.

Wanting illumination takes you further from it.

To want is the base of all misery.

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Send me anything you found interesting this week

See you on the next one

Gonçalo Delgado