Our world says, “Hey, you’re a leader. Move, do, achieve.” A lot of my videos, a lot of what I teach a lot of my books, a lot of my courses online or offline are all about productivity, extreme performance, a player, being a Titan, changing the world. I believe all of that. But you know what? There are seasons to life, are there not? There are times to plant and there are times to let the fields of your farm lay fallow. And the wise farmer understands the time to plant. And the wise farmer understands the time to let those fields be fallow. And what if your time in the darkness of your wilderness, away from the world was the season of your greatest growth. And what if there are seasons that are meant for you to rest and to read the great books and to write in the journal and to take those long walks and to rethink your thinking and rewire your life.
And what if those times where you think “I am wasting time,” and your emotional universe fills with guilt because you’re not doing, and your schedule is not full and you actually feel like you’re wasting your life because you’re not this epic producer. What if those times were actually a different form of productivity? What if those times were actually being productive in a different way, where you’re actually producing, not in the world, but producing within yourself, producing strength, producing new insights, producing new ideas, producing new capabilities, producing new energies, producing new emotions, shifting from fear to love. Because when you go through difficult times, what do you really do? If you feel your fear and your pain, you release it. It’s out of your system, and you grow in love and bravery and strength. What does that do to your craft? What does that do to your power? What does that do to your bravery? What does that do to the light that you bring into the world? You become this incredible force that is undefeatable.