What moves you? What makes you wake up and step
out of bed in the morning? What is that one thing you live for? What you burn
for? Being a huge Alan Watts fan, I listened almost all of his lectures and
read some of his books, but one lesson carved into my mind. ''What is money was
no object?'' I remember him talking to his students about what do they wanna do
after their graduation and most of them would say they would like to be
writers, painters, poets but would also say that what they want won't get them
enough money in life and that they are fully aware of that. He would ask them
''What would you do if money was no object?'' and when they finally decide and make
a plan on what they would love to do he would say ''Then go out there and be
that.'' Most of the people find this foolish, but it's really that simple. We
can live a long boring life doing things we don't want to do or we can just
follow what we desire and see where it leads us. We can have all the money in
the world, and I promise you it won't make us happy as much as living the
actual life we want to live. 20 years of working behind a desk and avarage
paycheck or 5 years of saving money, practicing, working on developing our
passion in our dream job and eventually having more money than that office
dude? Don't always play safe. If you're good at something, you work for it and
you are one with your passion, it's guaranteed you'll eventually succeed. And
once you succeed you'll have enough money to keep on doing it. It's all very
simple, we're all a little bit scared and we over think and play it safe. For
what? For waking up one day being 40 and wanting to do it all over again but
differently? There will be obstacles on the way and we'll wish we never even
began, but those are all things that are supposed to happen to us so we can
learn. I was fighting this simple rule for almost my whole life and now finally
accepting this opened my eyes and made me move forward. Give it a shot, don't regret
the chance you didn't take. Ask yourself: ''What do I desire?'' Sea of love, S. Model: Marina Javorčić fitness coach Support Marina's work at:
Što vas pokreće?
Što je to zbog čega se budite i ustajete iz kreveta ujutro? Koja je ta jedna
stvar za koju živite? Od čega gorite? Kao velika obožavateljica Alana Wattsa
poslušala sam gotovo sva njegova predavanja i pročitala neke knjige, no jedna
mi se lekcija urezala u pamćenje. ''Što da novac nije objekt?'' Sjećam se
njegovog razgovora sa studentima o tome što žele raditi nakon što diplomiraju i
većina njih bi rekla da žele biti pisci, slikari i pjesnici ali bi također
rekli i da to što žele im neće donijeti dovoljno novaca u životu i da su
svjesni toga. On bi ih pitao ''Što bi učinili da novac nije objekt?'' i kada
napokon odluče i naprave plan što bi voljeli raditi, rekao bi ''Onda izađi tamo
van i budi to.'' Većina ljudi ovo smatra blesavim, ali zaista je tako
jednostavno. Možemo živjeti dug dosadan život radeći stvari koje ne volimo
raditi ili možemo pratiti svoju želju i vidjeti gdje će nas odvesti. Možemo imati
sav novac svijeta i obećavam vam da vas neće učiniti sretnima kao živeći život
koji zapravo želimo. 20 godina posla za stolom i prosječna plaća ili 5 godina
štediti, vježbati, raditi na tome da razvijemo svoju strast u posao svojih
snova i eventualno imati više novaca nego onaj uredski čovjek? Ne treba uvijek
igrati na sigurno. Ako ste dobri u nečemu, radite za to i jedno ste sa svojom
strašću, zagarantirano vam je da eventualno uspijete. I jednom kada uspijete
imati ćete dovoljno novaca da nastavite to raditi. Sve je jako jednostavno, svi
smo pomalo uplašeni i previše analiziramo i igramo na sigurno. Za što? Da se
jednoga dana probudimo u 40-ima, sa željom da učinimo sve ponovno ali
drugačije? Postojati će prepreke na putu i zaželjet ćemo da nismo nikada niti
počeli, ali to su sve stvari koje nam se trebaju dogoditi kako bi naučili.
Borila sam se protiv ovog jednostavnog pravila cijeli svoj život i sada kada
sam ga napokon prihvatila otvorile su mi se oči i krenula sam naprijed.
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