- Responsibilities.
Task.
To do list.
As an high achiever, we always constantly asking ourselves,
how do we get more done?
How do we increase our output?
How do two times, three times, 10 times our productivity?
How do we two times, three times, 10 times to get more done
and achieve more than our peers?
Now if you watch Enter the Dragon,
there was a scene in the movie,
Bruce Lee was challenged by another martial artist
and that martial artist was asking him,
"So, what's your style?"
And Bruce Lee said, "Well, my style is the fighting
without fighting. The art of fighting without fighting."
And the guy was like what the heck does that mean?
Today, I'm gonna teach you the art of accomplishing
without accomplishing.
For most people watching this video, you probably won't
get what I'm talking about.
You won't be able to appreciate how profound
this message is, maybe later on in your careers.
I believe when it comes to accomplishment,
when it comes to getting things done,
when it comes to productivity,
that in life, we go through four stages.
The first stage is the same thing that I've gone through,
which is called Life happens to me.
That things just happen for no reason,
that I am not in control,
that I don't have the power to change my circumstances.
I remember early on in my career, I was complaining
and bitching about all kinds of scenarios.
I would tell my mentor that "Ya know, I don't understand
why my customer's so fucking cheap.
Why they not pay me enough?
How come people not hiring me?
How come people not buying my products?
How come the government tax me so much?
How come the economy is so bad?
How come the people in my city's,
all the people are so lazy?
It's always me me me me, that life happens to me.
That I have no control, whatsoever.
Then later on, I realize that I actually have
the power to change.
That I could take responsibility.
Then I evolved to stage two which is Life happens by me.
That's right, by me.
And that is, I can change, that I am in control.
That if I want to pivot I could.
If something that doesn't work, I could change it.
That I could take on challenges, I could get shit done.
I could do whatever it takes.
Life happens by me, my two hands.
I can make anything happen and accomplish a lot of goals.
And that's perfectly fine.
There's only one problem.
You get exhausted.
If you're an entrepreneur, if you're in business,
you're building your career, you know exactly
what I'm talking about.
The long hours, right?
You get burn out, you get exhausted and that's okay,
but you only get to a certain point.
And then later on, I learned, after years operating
in this level, Life happens by me.
I evolved into stage three which Life happens through me.
I call that the state of flow.
Life happens through me.
Now, what does that mean?
It means that I'm accomplishing yet I'm not attached.
It means I'm striving, yet I'm not attached.
If you look at nature, nature doesn't hurry,
yet accomplishes everything.
Only human beings, we hurry and we wanna get shit done.
We're frustrated when we're not hitting our goals,
when we're not making the money we wanna make
and we're not having the life that we want.
That we get so frustrated, but maybe sometimes
it's meant to take that long.
You're meant to go through this particular journey.
You're meant to take some time.
So, how can you let that go and say, "Yes, I know I'm going
to the right direction, yet I'm not attached."
It's easy to say, it's not easy to do.
And then the final stage is Life as me.
Life as me.
You see everything as one.
You see you are part of life, part is part,
life is you as well.
That's more the enlightened stage.
A lot of spiritual masters accomplish that
and they get to that stage.
The four stages.
So if you are trying to do more and do more and do more,
and I think we all have to go through that stage.
And I went through that stage for many years of my life
that I wanna get more done, I wanna get more done
I wanna get more done.
And yet at this point in my career, if you ask me
what is my goal?
I could tell ya, I don't have a goal.
I actually don't have goals.
I've have objectives and milestones I wanna accomplish
but I actually don't have a goal.
I know it's contrary to what most people talk about,
most gurus talk about, "You gotta have goals, man.
You gotta set goals, you gotta think big.
You gotta have huge goals."
Maybe.
But it think life now, is more about being
and you're operating in the state of flow.
So when it happens, it happens.
If it doesn't happen, you're not attached,
you're not saying that "Hey, I suck," or "I'm no good.
I'm not worth it," or "I'm not good enough."
you just is.
It just is.
That's the art of fighting without fighting.
That's the art of accomplishing without accomplishing.
So ponder on that.