At 2:53am this seems the appropriate title for this post. Since we founded nonprofit GoodMakers Films nearly 2 years ago, I've had the experience of being wide awake at this hour far too many times. Finding your life purpose and being surrounded by vibrant, passionate twentysomething's who want to solve the world's problems, gives me a life force that no energy drink could ever come close to.
Two years ago I was far from awake, working at an ad agency and immersed in work that I found less than thrilling. Ok, it was actually mind numbing much of the time although I enjoyed many of my clients. It was the work that seemed like such a poor use of me and I knew my days were numbered in the ad world. I was miserable but scared to let go because it meant I would need to be willing to remove my support from the things that no longer served me when I was asleep.
Sometimes waking up means giving up our stuff. Scary. We invest a lot of our time working for our stuff and all of that time and energy is what we tell ourselves is the reason we're not doing more important things like, spending time with our kids, doing meaningful work that makes a difference in the world and living into our potential.
Waking up is just the beginning of realizing that working for your stuff makes you a non-feeling, non-thinking, button pushing robot that is far from awake and means that we're missing everything that matters.
It's 3:09am and I'm thrilled to be awake.
