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Daily Practice: Why You Fear It & Why You Need It
We often want short-term satisfaction. When something is hard, like a dream we’re building toward, we easily want to give up and move on, thinking that it wasn’t meant for us —we tell ourselves we didn’t want it that badly anyway.
But what we fail to see is the long-term effect of our actions. We get so lost stumbling over the details that we fail to focus on the bigger vision. Good things—dreams, relationships—take time to build. If we don’t see the results we want as quickly as we want, we doubt our decision; we doubt our capability; we doubt our progress.
Since my main focus over the past six years has been studying Indian classical music, I like to view it through that lens. This music wasn’t created in a day, a few years, or even 20. Great musicians have sacrificed their entire lives in order to learn their craft. This music in particular has been crafted, refined, and passed down over centuries.
One thing that I always find helpful is reading people’s life stories and learning what they’ve gone through and how they’ve overcome their trials. If we don’t look to the struggles of the lives of anyone who’s ever achieved or mastered anything great, then we will drown in our own attempt to climb a similar mountain without support. We need their wisdom, their struggles, their challenges, and their inspiration…
