Really, it isn’t difficult. It just takes some time.
Life…the thing that takes time.
The one thing in life that is easy to do and is the most you can do is to breathe. It is so simple. You do it constantly all of the time without even thinking about it. But, it is everything.
If you want to live the least you have to do is breathe and it is the most you can do to stay alive.
When we talk about stepping from Boredom into Brilliance we are saying that we are “breathing” in terms of your artistic mission. When you are doing your mission you are breathing, when you aren’t you are not and the mission suffers.
When people talk about contributing the most to the world in terms of “value” what are they really saying?
They are saying that you should be doing your artistic mission and sharing that with the world.
For me I get confused about this sometimes. I think that I have to guess what the world wants and then give it to them. I think that I have to solve their problems in order to be of value to them.
The truth is, I don’t even know what “the world wants” and I don’t know what “problems” people have. The only thing I know is what I want my life to be which is to pursue happiness and to me the way to do that is to do the artistic mission I am on.
The general challenge of life for people is to have “monetary success.” It is admirable to do everything for free but it doesn’t pay the bills. So, the success industry is all wound up with making money. “How can I make more money and be more successful?”
So you are told to run around and speak the speak about success and solve people’s problems. There are so many “Gurus” out their offering some advice which is basically all the same thing that has been stated a million times before. It is like you have to project this image of “Success” so that people will believe in you and you can be a great person.
Big deal. Right?
Well, it may be. But, I believe that the way to solve the world’s problems is if everyone in the world would stop trying to do that for everyone else and get them to “do it their way” and start just doing their artistic mission and do it to the fullest.
Just like everyone has to breathe to stay alive, so it is with a person’s individual “reason to be.” People should be doing their reason to be and there is no one else who can determine what that should be.
Let’s face it, isn’t the world a better place when you are sitting alone in a practice room playing the piano or joining a choir to sing with others? Isn’t the world a better place when people are writing in their journals, creating poetry or writing songs even if they don’t become best sellers?
We’ve got everyone telling you that you have to go out and solve other people’s problems, which may be true, but what you don’t ever hear is the real truth and that is to go out and create your own artistic mission, one that will fill your life with meaning and make you a more valuable person because you become really good at what you are doing.
The artistic mission is never referred to as a pathway to solving the world’s problems, but I believe it is all important.
People have a tendency to copy successful people, when successful people became that way because they are unique and different. Not saying that role models aren’t useful, but doing what they did won’t get you where you want to go unless you recognize that just like them “You have to do it YOUR WAY.”
So, this blog is a part of me doing the least and most I can do to keep me on track with my artistic mission. It reminds me that the most important thing in my life is my duty to the divine sacred commission given to me to pursue my art.
Nothing is more exciting than being on a mission. That is the only thing that has really ever brought me happiness in life that is just about who I am as a human being.
It reminds me of the “Sermon on the Mount” when Jesus is using birds and lilies as an example about being one and whole with one’s self and that they are just being themselves and if everyone would do that it is enough. Life isn’t about sowing and reaping it is about fulfilling your mission, which is to do what you do best and that is what is meant by having an artistic mission. Everything else will fall into place if you are being who are meant to be.
That is why I call it a sacred commission, because it is what we are given to do by God and it is best if we heed that call.
So, the least you can do is the most you can do. Just like breathing, without it you die, but with it you live.