“The greatest power isn’t atomic energy—it’s human desire,” JR Ridinger. As we spoke yesterday, desire is what makes this world move, specifically our own worlds.  I want to press home the point that our goal doesn’t need to be to change the course of the world, rather to develop and change the course of our own worlds.  Never underestimate the power of the example we can set through harnessing our own power and desire—and through focus.  The interesting thing, and something we’ve spoken about often, is that creative power is destructive.  It shatters the paradigm and lessons of everything we thought we knew.  The mind is infinitely powerful so if we have a thought or something that tells us we need to work on it, then it is there for a reason—it is there for us to develop.  Those desires, the initial sparks and flames of knowing there is something else are no joke.  We are meant to fan that into something huge.

The difference between atomic energy and human desire is also this: atomic energy seeks to destroy through harmful means while human desire destroys that which harms in favor of something new, first for ourselves, and then for everyone.  Our creation can go either way so we need to manage the fuel and the resulting flame.  All forms of destruction contain power—it takes that kind of power to willingly walk away from security and what we knew in order to learn and create something else.  The whole point is this: we need to know the end goal of what we see and feel around us.  We need to know what we are looking to create in our lives and then, more importantly, how to build it back up into something functional, not just a repeat of what we’ve already done.  We can use our power and creativity for whatever we choose, yes, but when we choose to harness it, magic happens.

Spend sometime thinking about what we truly desire in our lives.  What do we truly crave?  How do we really want to feel?  Are we doing the things that bring us to that state?  Or are we waiting for something or someone else to give it to us?  The truth is we can have it at any time as long as we are dedicated and focused enough to follow through.  That alone is enough to shift the course we are on.  We can’t wait for someone to take our dreams, develop them, and give them to us.  We’d be waiting our entire lives, so that work is our job.  Finding that clarity and what it takes to bring the idea to life is our job.  Don’t squander the gift of energy we have because there will come a time when our energy is gone and it will be our time to transition it back to the Earth from where we came.  If we are here, if we are breathing, if we are able to alter the course of our lives, then now is the time to honor that desire and do it.  What do you really want to do with that? I hope we all take a moment to figure that out and envision the future.