YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING ***FREE TALK w/ John Patrick Morgan***
YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING
***FREE TALK w/ John Patrick Morgan***
What do you do when you don’t have to do anything?
For me, what I need to feel whole, healthy and filled with energy depends on how much I’ve given myself. When I don’t have to do, this always comes first.
First I’ll typically, exercise, eat well and rest.?
Once I’m feeling like my body and energy has been cared for, I’ll start to explore, learn and discover as my curiosity leads me towards new understandings.
As this occurs, my heart and mind fill and my creativity begins to ignite. From there, I’m almost always drawn into creating of some kind.
In earlier parts of my life, this may have been drawing me into making music, at other times making websites, and still, other times looking for land or a property to purchase and develop, later still it would lead me into creating magic tricks for my public performances, but in the last two decades, most often I am drawn into my creativity around the mind and human behavior and relating.?
As I indulge my creativity, what always follows is a fullness of the heart that wants to burst from me. As I receive and become full, I want always to give what I have. Whether it was playing out with my band, publishing a website, advertising a house for sale, performing magic in the street or sharing writing or videos online, my being creative in the absence of having to do anything, has always led to this sharing with others.
This is a natural process that I see in all of unfettered life.
In the absence of any obstacle to the flow of life, creation unfolds beautifully, first in service of the wholeness of the entity itself and then outwardly. It is just like the flowering and fruiting of a plant. When we are free of constraint, well watered, well fed and well lit by the light of love, we seek and express beauty, which calls in more from the world, and with this, we make fruit which ultimately is good only in its sharing.?
But for most of us, most of the time, we fear this isn’t the case.
We fear that if we had nothing to do, we might do nothing, wilt and die.?
This is what we come to believe when for long enough we live under duress of the ideas of the common.?
Ideas like responsibility and having to do certain things to be a good, respectable and valuable person.
It’s not that our contribution isn’t key to our well-functioning interdependence.
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It’s that the ‘certain things’ and the ‘having to do them’ distracts us from the contributions we would make could we be free enough to know what they are.
The world we have is made of musts.?
We do what we must and then live in the structures of this musterbation. It’s a self-perpetuating phallusy.?
But there is another world always waiting in parallel to the one we inhabit. It takes a simple side-step into a possibility like “I don’t have to do anything” to visit it.?
Even if for a day, an hour or just a moment, one can enter this world and they can see, with the eyes of a child, the space that occurs around them and the infinite time out ahead of them. You will find this time and space not filled with tasks and requirements, but with glimmering objects of possibility that stoke your curiosity and creativity.?
An average Thursday afternoon can become like, with a golden ticket in hand, passing into Wonka’s factory or crawling through the small door, like Alice, into Wonderland.?
All it takes is the adoption of some radical idea, the kind that a child might speak in defiance of the weighty world that is trying to crush them into a perfectly square form, which fits well like a Jenga block, in the structure of society.
A radical idea like, “I don’t have to do anything.”
Try it on. Look at the world through this lens, not only to see what you see but to see what you do.
Do you wither or do you wake?
Loving you, JPM
PS - On Thursday 10th August @ 9 am HST I will be giving my next FREE TALK.?
This month I’ll be speaking about how ideas like ‘having nothing to lose’ and ‘not having to do anything’ liberate you to love in ways that paradoxically provide you with bountiful joy and immense power to create impact and value in business and personal relationships.?
If you’d like to join us live OR watch the 24 hour replay, comment below requesting the link.
Engineering Leader | ex-Heroku, ex-Salesforce
1 年I’ll be there.
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Senior UX designer (Intel, Xbox, Microsoft, Expedia) ??? I love dialogue, working live, whiteboards, and paper. I use design to show, tell, ask, envision, and clarify.
1 年If anyone is thinking about joining, I'll tell you that John Patrick Morgan 's free talks are at a level of benefit you'd get from a paid call. Clear out a silent space away from family, take notes, take it apart, and look at what bubbles up for you, and watch the replays. Decide what you want to work on, or how you want to be supported prior to the call, so your intuition can be on the lookout for "heads up" moments. I guarantee you'll get something out of it.