Wisdom Within

What if I don’t have to act on every what if…?

Posted on August 14, 2024     Leave a Comment

As a rebalancing Product / Process person, this blog title is a mind-blower. Don’t get me wrong, I have always valued the process. But somewhere along the way I weighted the outcome more heavily.

Of course ,this can be helpful in many situations. My young-to mid adulthood held many of them.

Older and wiser really is a thing. I give myself more time now, to actually “enjoy the journey.” Not just in the overall picture, but in the daily doings, too.

For example, I know that I enjoy writing lists. For me, it’s a creative free-flow state where more and more ideas arrive. What if I allowed myself to revel in the list-making itself — and enjoyed that creative flow state for what it is, without needing to actually accomplish what’s on it? List-making, as art for art’s sake?

What if I don’t have to act on every idea? What if it has absolutely nothing to do with follow-through and it’s all about generation? What if the possibility, the idea, the free-flowing state, is actually what’s important? And then from there, I will know what and which to actually act upon, and when?

What if it’s really all about the what-iffing? And about the itty-bitty baby steps, movement in seemingly random direction? What if it doesn’t always have to be about big action and making things happen?

What if it leaves room for the miracles that are just waiting to peek through, if I would only get out of the way?

What if the process itself is the outcome?

What if anything further is therefore pure magic?

Third dimension is doing vs. being.

Fourth dimension is going from doing into being.

Fifth dimension is our doing comes from our being.