Doing What Matters

Too Much Intake Pt. 2

Garth Beyer

Those who say they have nothing to do are liars.

Every day there is a constant stream of to-do’s, of tasks, of obligations. Keeping busy is the easiest thing in the world. Our inbox’s are filling as I type this. We’ve got more notifications and distractions than ever before. Oh, did your phone just vibrate too?

Plain and simple, we’re damn busy. Of course, “busy” is commonly misinterpreted.

This intake of lights, noises, beeps, buzzers, reminders, flags, dings, ticks, and notification symbols is a great way to trick us into thinking that responding to them is a form of output. That being busy is the same as producing something that matters.

Let’s remember that not all things that come in are worth taking in. Let’s not confuse busy with meaningful. Let’s make sure not to devote too much time to intake when what matters is output.

Hey, intake will be there whether you are too, or not.

Output, on the other hand, only shows up when you do.

 

Stay Positive & Go Do Something (that matters more than responding to that txt)

Garth E. Beyer

 

 

The First Day Is Always The Hardest

Garth Beyer

Of course I’m joking here. It’s actually the opposite.

On the first day you have no expectations, you’re feeling things out, you’ve already accepted you may succeed, but you may also fail.

The first day you’re pumped. The first day your goal is just to learn, just to get through it. The first day you have the support of all those you told “I’m doing it.”

Of course, it’s worth to note that support quickly turns against you as you get further along your endeavors, which leads me to my point.

It’s not the first day that’s always the hardest, it’s the next day. Because doing things that matter never gets easier, you just get more out of it.

 

Stay Positive & Should Make Starting Now Easier

Garth E. Beyer

For The Most Of Us

Garth Beyer

For some, they’re able to quit their jobs to focus completely on their passion. For some, they inherit work that is paralleled with their passion. For some, their passion has been all they’ve ever known.

But for most, we have to earn our right. We have to conform a little to be able to be our true selves. We have to do a tad of the safe work, the work we may not want to do, the work that we get paid by the hour for, all in order to be able to do what we truly want.

The trouble is, people get stuck. Safe becomes comfortable. “The groove” becomes their future. They take what they are given and buy the idea that they aren’t special with it. They buy the idea that they can’t work on creating their art (doing their passion) simultaneously while working.

It’s a great excuse – the job – to not do the work that really matters. A job takes time, energy, focus, muscles, brainpower. It’s easy to say that you spent all your willpower for the day on your job and pushback your passion to tomorrow, or the weekend or after you finish this big project at work.

This is where being stuck meets being confused. Those who are stuck confuse their passion with something they have to do, much like their job. Whereas, by definition, your passion is something you get to do, get to feel, get to create – not something you have to.

Being able to separate work and your passion takes practice, but it can all begin with a constant reminder that work is what you have to do and your passion is what you get to do.

No day is fulfilled without having done both.

 

Stay Positive & Fulfill More Of Your Days

Garth E. Beyer