I wasn’t going to write an email today.
Truth be told this week has been meh at most.
Just loads of niggly bits of stupid shit cropping up that makes you want to opt out of doing anything productive. The kind of petty annoyances that make you want to crawl back into bed and tell the universe to go fuck itself with a rusty spork.
The thing is though. I have to show up regardless of whether or not I want to cause nobody is going to do it for me.
Nobody’s gonna swoop in wearing a cape made of solved problems and finished tasks.
(Would be epic if they did lol)
Life has a funny way of fucking with us and it’s honestly just the way we respond to it that sets us apart.
I could let it kick me right in the nether bits and have a day of whining and cursing…
(And believe me, I’ve got a colourful vocabulary ready to deploy. I could string together profanities that would make a sailor blush and a poet weep)
Or I could try and muster up a little bit of energy and turn it into a somewhat okay-ish post.
Every. Single. Day.
You’re making a choice.
You’re either obsessed or you’re average.
There’s no magical middle ground where you get to half ass your way to greatness while binge watching Netflix and complaining about how unfair life is. That’s not how this works.
And as much as I don’t really dig the next dude I’m gonna mention…
Grant Cardone nailed it when he said you gotta be obsessed or be average.
Average is the slow death of everything you could’ve been. Average is looking back at 80 and wondering what the fuck happened to all those dreams you had.
Nobody gives a shit about your bad week. The world doesn’t stop spinning because you’re having a moment. Bills don’t pay themselves. Dreams don’t manifest through wishful thinking and vision boards.
You want extraordinary? Then be fucking extraordinary about showing up.
Even on the meh days.
So yeah, I wrote this email. Not because I wanted to. Not because inspiration struck like lightning. But because obsessed people do what average people won’t.
And tomorrow?
I’ll be in your inbox again.
Be obsessed or be average and if you don’t have anything to obsess over. You best get looking, cause the grim reaper is coming for all of us…
Stephen Walker