Live by Choice, Not by Chance. 🌹
The profound wisdom and challenge of making your life your own.
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❣️ Heartbeat: We’re 32 days into the Hero100. It’s been incredible, and challenging. I’m excited to see what the next 30 days bring. This is a journal entry I wrote this morning, reflecting on a classic quote from legendary samurai swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. If you appreciate this, consider sharing it. Thank you, enjoy. 🪶
“I choose to live by choice, not by chance.” — Miyamoto Musashi
The wisdom of Musashi is settling in deeply…
The things I want to exist in the world, the time for what I want to do, will not exist unless I make them happen. Unless I bring intentionality to when, where, and how they find their way into the world.
It’s an alternative interpretation of “if you’re not first, you’re last.”
Not competition, but priority.
If you don’t prioritize these first – they come last.
Second place can always be dethroned by a new, more salient, urgent, shiny first place. Minute by minute. Day by day. Lifetime by lifetime.
The world will happily absorb all your time, energy, attention, and resources.
It’s a hydra.
There will always be work tasks piling up. Always pseudo-relevant social posts to see. Always a feeling of more to be done. Always another book to read. Always another message to attend to.
But my meditation session, the book I want to write, that walk I want to take — these are never guaranteed. They are not an inevitability.
They must be chosen.
They must be a priority. The required space, time, energy, attention, and resources must be given. They are not always occurring in the background.
In fact, being intentionally chosen is the only way they will ever occur.
Your life, expression, and creation are the only things you are not guaranteed. You must choose your own life and guard it fiercely.
It will not happen by chance.
‘Someday’ never arrives. ‘Tomorrow’ is a deadline that can be extended indefinitely.
If not now, when?
Be specific. Get intentional. Make a choice. Honour your commitment.
Your life must be your priority.
This is not narcissistic self-aggrandizement. This is recognizing that you are here, now. That your life is happening and it will not happen without your choosing. It will be stolen—or worse—freely given away by you to the black holes of attention drain and other people’s agendas.
You belong here.
You are allowed to take up space.
Exactly as much as you need. Precisely as much as you choose.
If your life is not aligned with your values, it is because you are not choosing them. You are leaving it up to chance.
This may sound trite, but its wisdom is profound.
Reclaim your attention and direct it towards the wanted. Align your actions, resources, time, and energy with that focus.
There is no other way. No shortcut is available.
You must choose to live by choice, not by chance.
And defend this to the death – else you will die without ever having truly lived your own precious life.
Aho. Amen. 🦁 EB.
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Very inspirational, thank you Eric :)