The Day I Stopped Working Hard At Going Nowhere

The day I stopped working hard at going nowhere.

“I’ve watched it 20 times and it’s so offensive”…

🥜 Ever heard Ricky Gervais tell his peanut allergy story?

🥜 Not the actual stand-up comedy bit from his routine but the story about the woman offended by it.

🥜 Rather than press the skip button, she watches it dozens of times to complain about it.

Apart from the comedy/culture/free speech arguments

what she is saying is:

🙈🙉 I don’t want to change so my job is to get you to change.

Humans are curious creatures.

Do you think she knew about entropy? 🤷🏽‍♀️

Entropy is a fundamental scientific principle that roughly dictates:

things left to themselves will either fall apart or decay.

Over time 🏠 your house gets messy, 🪴 your garden gets weeds, 🏖️ sand castles at the beach get washed away.

Just to keep things as they are - that is, no change - takes effort. To stop our lives from turning to chaos requires us to invest energy.

🧠 Then one day I realised that if I had to expend effort then I would rather expend it on a path to something better than to work hard to go nowhere.

Where are you headed? Where do you put your effort?

Love to know.

--------

If we haven’t met yet…

I never considered myself good at change until I went from

-free-range kid to army sniper

-home movies to National Geographic cameraman

-fumbling card tricks to a professional magician

-never swinging a hammer to building a home

-high school dropout to published author

-business illiterate to building & selling a business

-stutterer to motivational speaker

Turns out I know how to change and I know how to make it simple so you can do it too.

#change  #changeability #motivationalspeaker