Treat Yourself Like An Experiment
Life is a game. Here’s how to play it.
I think the most intriguing question we can ask ourselves is “what if I was able to do this thing?”
Something about asking it just lights my soul ablaze. What if you could pull it off? What if?
It gives me chills.
We take life too seriously sometimes
I think part of the reason we are scared of doing things is that we take life too seriously. You have to be the right kind of necessary stupid.
You have to be willing to be curious and try new things when the same old thing you’ve been doing hasn’t been working.
Let the question of “What if?” be your guiding force throughout this life.
We all have families and relationships and jobs and things we own and dreams to chase. With all of these obligations, it can be so easy to get overwhelmed by the supposed seriousness of life.
It’s deep, but it’s not that deep. If you could instead approach your problems as an experiment, you could lighten the unnecessary load you’re putting on yourself.
As Tony Robbins would say:
See things for as they are, but not worse than they are.
We have the tendency to overreact and act like the world is crumbling when things aren’t going our way.
No. Nothing is crumbling. You’re a mere spec in a vast universe. No one really cares because they have their own problems to deal with anyway. Relax.
Imagine you’re watching a movie of yourself and it sucks
Or maybe it’s a great movie, but there are definitely those moments that suck.
When you can think of your life as a movie, it helps you to acknowledge how silly you look.
You’ll be able to see your flaws as something that everyone goes through and predict your options. You’ll be able to laugh at yourself for how dramatic you are making things.
Experiment! Be curious! Simply hypothesize and try different approaches.
A great musician once told me:
“How simple can you make the problem and how simple can you make the solution?”
We don’t have all the time in the world, but you have way more time than you think.
Just don’t waste it feeling sorry for yourself. Do something. Try things. Find the best approach and do it.
It’s only a waste of time if you aren’t doing anything.
What if you could become the person you need to be? The person you want to be?
How amazing of a feat would that be?
The reality is that you don’t really think you’re capable of achieving your dreams.
Not really. That’s the problem. We have to work on that.
To believe you are capable is to avoid negative, scarcity thinking. The only way to truly convince yourself that you are capable is to become a person you can trust.
The only way to become someone you can trust is to improve. The only way to improve is to start doing those behaviors required to succeed, the behaviors you already know you have to do on a consistent basis.
Experiment and find what works, and then do it.
Show up every day until you convince that weak, nagging, and complaining mind that you aren’t going to quit.
It either has to get on board or…get on board. Those are the only two options.
We humans are masterful at making life harder than it needs to be. We get easily frustrated by trivial things. We act like the world is ending. We make things more and more complex.
Every problem is more simple than you make it. This is your path to improvement.
Experimentation is about opening your mind up to the possibility that life can be a game you can win. You can always learn from your mistakes and try new approaches.
Just don’t over-indulge in experimentation and use it as a way to avoid doing the thing that will work.
Stop taking life so seriously, and you’ll be able to see how malleable it is.