Buntu Majaja, 7days2day: Episode 2 — Die for

Why is that starting is the hardest thing to do but the easiest thing to do?

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If you have a goal you are working towards or have every tried to achieve anything great, like going to the gym after a long day — [not really but for most of us this is a great challenge], you will know how this feels.

When you start anything, you tend to feel that starting is so difficult, but once you get started it gets easier, when in actual fact continuing to do it is more difficult than the first step.

This is normally a matter of psychology, world view and perspective. The reason it seems more difficult to start than continue normally has nothing to do with what you are actually doing.

You may have something you should be doing right now, we all always do. It might be small like chores, or it might be big like calling someone you care about and saying sorry.

The problem is when we think about it, your body goes into a state, your mind starts giving you reason why now is not the right time. This is a problem.

The only solution is start. That is the only solution. Sit down, stand up, go there. Just START! No matter how small, take a step.

“Next week I want to ask myself more about who I am and how that connects to what I am doing right now. If you have any questions, please…”

This is the last sentence of episode 1. and to be honest I have not thought much about it although its been 14 days [yes, not 7, however I started and so I must continue].

There are some things that I know for certain outline who I am like: I aspire to be multi-millionaire in the next ten years, not for the money but for who it will require of me to become that future version of me.

The type of person it will require of me to grow into in order … then, I will spend the rest of my time finding ways to sustainably give it away.

TO LOVE… and TO GROW…

Then I also know that very little of who I am, I actually know. In actual fact much of it is being discovered and created every single day. The very act of writing this blog is part of that process, sculpturing my reality into a artist of communication, one letter to the world at a time.

So to ask who am I is not as important as to ask who do I want to become.

Everyday I discover more about myself and so you, about yourself. When when you do, write it down, into some journal of ideas, journal of lessons, journal of things you hope your children will read.

So my aspiration, I mentioned above, is one of the key driving forces in the driver’s seat of my decisions.

That and the “die for” question “What do I want my family and friends to remember me for when I am no longer here, what will they say I would have died for”.

Given the above, I will now share some images where captured this feeling for me, of the aspiration and the “die for” question.