Worrying about making the right moves and how your life will turn out is something that's
so many of us spend a lot of time on. So in this video, I want to share something really
profound from Jim Carrey who talks about how to manage this and why you should take a chance
on yourself.
You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future,
but all there will ever be is what's happening here and the decisions we make in this moment
which are based in either love or fear. So many of us choose our paths out of fear disguised
as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to
expect. So we never dare to ask the universe for it. As far as I can tell, it's just about
letting the universe know what you want and working toward it while letting go of how
it comes to pass
The essence of what he's trying to say is that it's really easy to get carried away
with what is yet to come. Wondering when and how you will reach your goals or whether they
will in fact, ever come true. This can tend to consume you, especially if you're like
me and you tend to overthink a lot. Some of us have these huge ambitions that seem years
away from ever being realized. While it's important to keep an eye on where you want
to be, it's just as important to realize that what truly matters is how you choose to live
your present and the work that you're putting in to build that future for yourself.
So often what we want can come to us in a way that we least expected, but we tend to
get hung up on these small failures that seem like the end of our dreams. He says something
really important that I want to highlight, and that is you need to ask the universe for
it. This doesn't mean that you sit back and just let the world take care of things for
you, but it simply means relinquishing control of the outcome and instead of focusing on
the effort that you're putting in to build whatever it is that you're trying to build,
because at the end of the day, the thing that will give you the most peace of mind is knowing
that you put your best foot forward and not having any regret about the fact that you
never gave it your everything.
My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible
for him. And so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant
and when I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job and our family had to do
whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least
of which was that you can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance
on doing what you love.
It's so easy to get stuck thinking about the repercussions if whatever you're pursuing
fails, but one way that I've approached something that's risky is I don't necessarily think
of a lack of success as failure. Instead, I think of a lack of trying as a failure that's
much scarier and I think that that's helped me a lot. Once I was able to reconfigure my
mind to realize that all I wanted to do was just try and not have any regret, it became
a lot easier for me to live in the moment and just put in the work that I was supposed
to.
So many of us pursue paths that seems safer and don't bring us happiness in the long run,
but the question to ask yourself is, what's the worst that can happen if you did give
yourself a chance to do something you cared about? He's saying, give yourself that chance
to know what the outcome could have been before you jump to a conclusion. We all have different
odds that we feel are stacked against us. Either we don't have enough experience in
a certain area or we have certain financial obligations, but if you want to do something
else that you love and it may not be as lucrative, whether it's your own business or side hustle
or building a skill up, you have to find a way to maximize your time and your resources
to working at it and giving it your all.
All right guys, I hope this was helpful. Remember that you can always fail at anything that
you're pursuing, but if you're wondering whether you should do something that you love, take
a second and think about how you could be failing at something that you do not care
about, so you might as well give this a chance. If you found this video helpful, let me know
what you think in the comments below and share it with somebody who you think it might benefit
as well. My name is Vihan Chelliah, thank you so much for watching. I'll see you next
week.