Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 49): Expect to Hit a Wall - Mesillas Yesharim

okay good morning bokuto it's wonderful to be back and to start up our 10 minutes of meaning once again we're studying Messina Sharon once a week for 10 minutes trying to inject Our Lives our day our week with a sense of meaning a sense of purpose to help us all realize our best selves and to accomplish all the things that we set out to do where our parent designed the 7th chapter of Mithila see Sharon continuing with the Barrett archives research describing the elements of alacrity the first Mead that the first character trip we studied was the use how to live a life of vigilance and caution to not simply grip it and rip it life to not simply live our day find ourselves at the end of that day will not even sure how we got there but rather to be mindful to be present to be conscious and to be vigilant throughout our day the second character trait is rhesus once we have identified the pitfalls we've identified the barriers the obstacles to accomplishing what we want we now need to chart our course we now need to awaken ourselves and to energize ourselves to set our goals and to pursue them relentlessly to not be satisfied until we achieve them until we accomplish them to make it through each and every day fulfilling what we promised ourselves and others we would do that day that's the character trait of Zuri's us to not be stopped by procrastination by laziness by that voice of self-sabotage in our head that says why bother you're never going to finish but you're not going to get it right anyway so don't bother trying but you're not worthy or you're not capable or you won't make others happy that voice of self-sabotage that says you'll do it tomorrow what do you have to start today or let someone else do it why does it have to be you Jesus is the response to wake up every day to say now I'm going to live my best stuff I'm going to fulfill all of my goals I'm going to accomplish everything I set out to do so somehow begins this parity me describes Jesus alacrity zeal in clues he has an energy they are critical at two stages we all know it one of those stages we talk about it we think about it but there's a second stage of the critically important point to them how makes how can have Jewish name alacrity consists of two components of two elements at HUD Koda masala some eisah what is before you get started you need to get out the gate you need to be on the starting line with alacrity you're not excited when you begin if you don't have energy when you set out or start forget it you're finished so whether it is a project in total learning or a new exercise regimen or new diet or a new commitment to be patient to never anger whether it is certain professional or career aspiration and goals in whatever area of life if we're not energized to begin forget it so that one we all know you needs reasons you need alacrity to get started there are about - the condition that I'm how is that you need alacra needs to start but you also need a lack birdie to finish a lot of people get out of the gate how many of us have unfinished product projects in our home we started that room we started to build that thing we started to paint that thing we started the guitar lessons we started to learn how to touch type we started to learn how to whatever fill in the blank we started we have that alacrity the diseases when we set out but our life is filled and defined and characterized by unfinished projects by unfinished promises by unfinished goals and so the second stage of this reason says that empower it kicks in not only have to start but it kicks in when you hit that wall because inevitably invariably every one of us hit a wall you hit a wall you know if you first start dieting and the weight drips off and you're getting positive feedback and your clothes are fitting or falling off so the reinforcement is right there but then you hit a wall then you level off then people stop noticing then it's not as exciting and fun but the abbot is resist to continue to push forward to get to that goal when you start exercising and you start learning now when you start the doc tell me with brothels it's exciting and when you get to Tamura it's also exciting it's a little less exciting it's a little challenging to get to the end rakesh M the end is in sight so that is enough to motivate but otherwise it's be hard to be motivated through everything Tamura and there's wonderful new sectors it's easy to start out but can we push through and finish go to Moscow summit socially Ahmed Saunders a mitzvah before you begin says that I'm how the key is to not turn the good deeds the good opportunities in our lives into humus the whole idea of the path of the matzah to not let it sit it's not just about the food it's not simply an allergy to gluten it's not simply a diet to go car the idea of matzo is to not be slowed down to not be defined to not turn our lives in to Hammad's more than 18 minutes to allow it to rise to be inflated with our ego with our laziness and procrastination with the voice of self-sabotage with the resistance in our lives that's holding us back that's hummus it's turning our lives at the hummons someone in your life asks you take out the garbage now you say I'll get to it I'll do it later you've turned that opportunity into hummus if someone says you want to come Learner let's go to shoe will be a few minutes early you say act my minutes to get there late you've turned diving into the hummus if you have an opportunity to advance your career you have an opportunity to expand your mind you have an opportunity to broaden your life experience and you say yeah I'll get to it someday who needs it now then you've turned it into hummus and the big is mono because I'm not a fun about lots of the matzo ball so you minor Yogesh might say oh that was Bogalusa so when presented an opportunity jump at it someone says you know if you called so-and-so you'd really lift their spirits they're really down in there so you can write it down you could schedule it for a week from now on you could try to remember in your head you may get to it you'll likely never get to it or you could take out your phone dial that number do it right then don't turn a missed opportunity to comments grab the opportunity do it make it happen billionaires Mama's munchies rapidly dying gain sarcoma cachaça and also a shell eco reggae Seamus Kadesh you from a Scottish is the Eco of la massa you see every time we procrastinate and we put time in between us and the righteous thing that we want to do we are inviting all kinds of other variables and elements obstacles impediments into our way and so we get out the most noble intentions we could have the best plan but if we don't do it and we don't set a plan of how to do it if we don't articulate goals and we don't have a resolution about how to arrive at that goal then it's never going to happen it's exciting it's invigorating sometimes we hear a speech we read a book we have a conversation we attend the conference we walk out of a meeting and we are driven this time it's gonna be different gonna change everything in my life that's nice that's a wish you wish for everything in your life to be different but is there a resolution is there a plan goals articulated and how am I going to get there and understanding identifying when I hit that wall what will I do then to run through it or to climb over it or to get around it because we're all going to a wall in our career in our personal lives and our relationships and our learning in our Davin II we hit that proverbial wall and if you don't have a plan if we don't have that expectation if we're not prepared for when we do then it'll knock us over it'll flatten us and we'll never get to that promised land we'll never get to that goal that we set out for ourselves so Tom Crowl says the path deleting our best life is not just having energy when we get out of the gate but it's having a plan to re-energize when we're halfway through when we hit that wall to maintain the alacrity of the enthusiasm the energy to be able to complete a project to get that burst and to break through all the way until we get to the end when we begin it's romantic it's like falling in love it's amazing but when it wears off what will we do to continue what would we do to make sure that we finish Albert Einstein once said it's a great quote life is like riding a bicycle to keep your balance you must keep music life's like riding a bicycle this week's passion of my say the musta am Moses I am the notion of moving the idea of stopping and starting but keep on moving because the soup comes out like even when we stop the motor I am we're Massa a and the answer is even when you pause to breathe even when you interrupt for a vacation for recreation this time of year it's all contributing towards the Massa M it's part of the movement it's part of the journey it's part of being able to set out and accomplish our goals we're not abandoning the journey we're simply reenergized we're be able to get a burst to be able to finish if we stop moving like with a bicycle you fall down to keep your balance said Albert Einstein they gotta keep moving and that's what it means to be a Jew that Nafees Zakaria describes my lack of angels are owned and they stand angel stands still but man alone is called the mahalik we're always moving we're doing we're accomplishing we're achieving I'm not suggesting you never stop to take a break you can't sit down I'm not suggesting that we never need to relax re-energize but even when we do it's part of the process of moving we're always moving we're never done moving we're never done accomplishing and achieving we're never done setting out new goals even when we finished the minute gives you messiah mimus after you finish one that same day in that same learning session you already begin the next miss after because we never stop we're never Oh mate you never done or mahalik we're always moving and that movement will only happen if our lives are inspired and informed by a sense of hysteresis by an energy that we look at our day and we imagine and we envision the best version of ourselves and then we have a plan in how to accomplish it this year is ten minutes of meaning it's not yet been sponsored if you'd like to consider sponsoring ten minutes of meeting every Wednesday morning for the year then please don't feel free to speak to me whether you're here alive or watching online please be in touch have a fantastic day filled with energy alacrity and food