We continue our Dadly Daily Declaration series with readings from Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop. Today’s reading focuses on the personal assertion “I Am Willing.”
So, let’s dive into today’s reading from chapter 2, “I Am Willing”. We’re going to divide this chapter into two parts due to the sheer volume of gems and notes. Here are a few gems from today’s reading:
- You have the life you’re willing to put up with.
- You have a MASSIVE say in the ways you live your life, even in the aftermath of traumatic events.
- If you’re not willing to take the actions to change your situation, then whether you like it or not, that is the life you have chosen. By defending your circumstances as they are right now, you are actually making a case for being where you are.
- The true measure of who you are won’t be found in your circumstances but rather the way in which you respond to them. To start this new process, you must first stop another one.
- Stop blaming luck.
- Stop blaming other people
- Stop pointing to outside influences or circumstances
- Stop blaming your childhood or neighborhood
- There is always something you can do to impact your circumstances even if you’ve had them for years and till can’t see a way. But first, you must be willing. You must first accept that while there are things that have happened in your life that you had no say in, you are 100 percent responsible for what you dow with your life in the aftermath of those events. Always, every time, no excuses.
- When you are finally willing, you can literally experience that willingness, that innate freedom that courses through your veins; When you are not, you feel that kind of primordial stuck-ness hat halt and presses down on you like some invisible weight on your chest.
- Every time you add the “but” to the end of a statement, you turn yourself into the victim.
- Are you willing to stop living the life you have and start living the life you’re after? It ALL begins with the emergence of willingness, that liquid, constantly expanding and contracting state where life springs and cedes–and all if it is within you at the flick of a linguistic switch.
- We often view ourselves as procrastinators or lazy or unmotivated. In reality, we’re simply unwilling. We put things off or avoid them completely because we tell ourselves we just don’t want to do it or that we can’t do it.
- It does not matter what you’re facing in life, which obstacle you’re trying to overcome, if you are willing to generate the state of willingness. That’s your doorway to making the effort, taking the steps, dealing with the setbacks and ultimately creating the progress and change in your life that you’re seeking.
- That’s why the simple statement “I am willing” is so profound. You become enlivened and empowered by its promise, open to its allure.
Those gems lead us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
Either you control your destiny, or your destiny will control you. Life won’t stop for your pauses and procrastinations. It won’t stop for your confusion or fear. It will continue right along without you. Whether you plan an active part or not, the show will go on.
Ask yourself the question, “Am I willing?” That question demands an answer. It can’t just be left there in the nothingness of the universe. Am I willing? It pulls for a response. Am I willing? Its power is irresistible; You cannot escape its press for truth.
Am I willing?
