The Level and the Deferred Life Plan
Download MP3I want to take a minute to talk about something that got me tripped up for a very, very long
time.
Uh, most of my life is packed.
Uh, and one of the things that we remember when we start talking about the under,
Masonic understanding of time, uh, is that in many ways we plan for a tomorrow that
will never come.
Uh, one day when I'm rich, one day when I'm healthy, one day when I am, uh, old and frail
or, you know, uh, whatever those sort of, uh, daydreaming kind of thoughts, those experiences
in some far off imagined future, um, aren't necessarily useful.
Uh, and I say that with a huge, you know, caveat and grain assault, uh, one, we talk about
the, uh, the one day in the future, we never imagine, uh, the things that stay the same.
Uh, I'll give you an example, uh, one day in the future when I'm rich, uh, and famous
and whatever else.
I don't think that, uh, I think about how much different my life is going to be.
I often forget to include like, I'm still going to need to eat breakfast or I'm still going
to need to exercise every day or I'm still going to need to, you know, do all the tasks
required for daily hygiene.
This is a productive lens to use when evaluating your future goals and objectives, because
what happens when we daydream is we often decouple, uh, from life.
We decouple from the concepts, uh, the, the, the sort of harsh realities of everyday
living, uh, in our dream future, we don't imagine it's going to be raining or we don't
imagine it's going to be hot or cold or what have you.
Our dream futures, uh, oftentimes neglect reality.
And in becoming separate from reality, we also essentially guarantee that they are never going to
come. So when we start to do the work to take the steps required to do the work like we talked
about in the last episode, to get from point A to point B, uh, we stop daydreaming about this
manufactured, uh, wonderful reality and we start executing on the steps required to get there.
Now I caveat, caveat all of that to say, you know, it's important to have goals.
It's important to have, uh, dreams and hopes and aspirations.
But because they are not envisioned in a real life, uh, they neglect all of the real life
constraints required to either overcome or embrace to make that happen.
So as you're doing your work, as you are, uh, reflecting on where you want to go and how you're
going to get there, uh, it makes more sense to lean into what you know you have to do.
I know I will need a vacation. I know I will need, uh, to perform daily exercise or hygiene.
I know I will continue to need to eat, right? Despite, uh, wouldn't it be great if I didn't have to.
Um, all of that understanding then allows you to actually use those structural underpinnings
of a life to create those aspirational experiences that you're looking to, to build.
So lean into those supporting behaviors, figure out how you might use those to help you achieve
your objectives and in doing that, your daydreams will become closer and closer and closer
to your active reality.
Creators and Guests

