Get Your A$$ In the Game!

I love to talk about failure.  I love to talk about all of its gifts; about how failure really is the source of growth in life.  But there is something that comes before that… it’s called participation.  In order to fail, you actually have to be PARTICIPATING in your life.  You need to be out on the skinny branches, asking for what you want, making it happen and sometimes looking like an idiot.

“Duh,” you say?  Look at your life.  Are you really a player–ON THE FIELD?  Have you really pushed, balls to the wall, to make your dreams and desires happen.  I doubt it.  Not everywhere.  If we all were really playing full out, we would all have everything we really want in life. Unfortunately, human beings seem designed to be spectators.

spec·ta·tor
/spekˌtātər/
noun
1. a person who watches at a show, game, or other event.
synonyms: watcher, viewer, observer, onlooker, looker-on, bystander, witness

This is why the internet is so fun.  We can travel all around the world, exploring all of “life” while sitting at home in our underwear.  We can stand for equality and demand the end of hunger or the fair treatment of orcas at Sea World… all without really DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT.  This is not being on the playing field.  This is typing 140 characters that make you feel better about yourself but accomplish very little in the real world–ON THE FIELD.

 

Watch this (then hit the back arrow to rejoin me):

We are spectators because we are afraid.  We all have areas in our lives where fear controls us.  We don’t want to fail so it becomes easier to judge the people who are really out DOING life: living their dreams, making stuff happen.  It becomes easier for us to just stay safe and remain in the stands.  The problem here is that all of us have at least one area where we are doing this, but few of us are willing to admit it.  We may be producing great results at work, but failing in our relationship.  We may have a terrific family, but have no integrity on the job.  Success and balance come when we are truly living for our dreams and doing the hard, scary work that makes them real in the world.

Whether  you are committed to inventing something that revolutionizes the quality of life on the planet or you simply want to find your soul mate, you can’t get results until you get in the game!  Wake up!  Turn off the computer, put your phone down and get away from your tv… life is happening all around and if you don’t have the things you really want, you are probably still in the stands.

CALL TO ACTION:  Evaluate your life.  Take a good, hard look.  Where are you being a spectator in your life?  Commit to taking 3 actions in the next 24 hours to get you what you want!  Put your pants on and go outside.