Postpone NOT Your Heart's Most Precious Desires

Postpone not your heart's most precious desires.

Who knows what tomorrow brings. 

Don’t assume the future will be a place where everything you’ve put off because you’re really busy right now can happen easily, effortlessly and wonderfully. 

...illness, pandemics, environmental disasters, financial setbacks, wars and attacks happen. Too often than I want to admit. [Hurts my heart to acknowledge this reality].

Do you really want to postpone that which you most want to do until a time when it’s too late to do it?

Life’s meant to be lived right now. The future’s a bit of a fantasy. Isn’t it?

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Here's what happens to most people. They had a portfolio of passions they used to have when they were younger. They used to love mountain biking. They used to love traveling. They used to love snowboarding. They used to love writing poetry. And then they became adults. know, adults are nothing more than deteriorated children. And so what I'm challenging you when you consider this form of wealth, adventure, is to make the return to the innocence you knew when you were a child and understood the magic of life. Are you doing the things that you used to do that filled you with joy? And obviously, if you used to love mountain biking and you're not doing it anymore, that's why you've lost some joy. If you used to take nature walks, but now you're so busy running your career and lifting your family and paying your bills that you no longer take those nature walks well, then do that to bring some adventure back into your life. And related to that, let me shift to physics. There's a term called entropy. And to summarize entropy, entropy is the phenomenon of any body over time to dissolve into disorder. How does that be relevant to you? Well, it's simply this. As you leave the perfection of childhood, as you assume the responsibilities of adulthood, a certain disorder of passion starts to happen. A certain dissolving of that ability to be adventurous starts to occur. We start to have a hardening of our joyfulness. We lose access to that wonder and curiosity that I'm speaking about. And so you want to fight entropy by injecting adventure into every single one of your weeks. If you take a certain route to work, maybe tomorrow take a different route to work to fight entropy and complacency. If you usually eat at Italian restaurants, I love Italian food, maybe tonight, take your family out or go by yourself or go with your friends to a Vietnamese restaurant. If usually you read leadership books, elite performance books, productivity books, books on innovation, biographies of great business-builders. Maybe read a poetry book. Maybe read a spirituality book. Maybe listen to an audiobook from a physicist or a yoga teacher. If usually you do spin class, maybe next week you're going to try Pilates. The human spirit is most on fire. Not only when you serve, and not only when you capitalize on your inherent power, but when you have fun. Here's an idea to play with. Don't lose your ability to play. If you take yourself too seriously, no one will take you seriously. So, yes be responsible. Yes be productive. Yes be prolific. Yes change the world. do it also with a childlike sense of wonder. It makes me think of that famous image of Albert Einstein. You've probably seen it. And his hair is all over the place and he's sticking out his tongue at the camera. Perfect example of a heavyweight, someone who changed the world with respect to his general theory of relativity. And yet at the same time, he did it with that childlike spark. I I've read a fair amount about Albert Einstein's work style and his lifestyle. And he used to just love to sail in Lake Zurich and he loved to have fun. And so I'm encouraging you, yes, be an A-player. I'm also encouraging you measure your world-class life also by your sense of festivity, your sense of joy, your sense of aliveness. Be a little bit of a pirate. Yes, be serious, responsible and an awesome human being, but be a little bit of a hire it, know, break the rules a little bit, make sure you have some fun and never lose that childlike access to the joy that is within you.