“It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.  They were out and happened to things,” Leonardo Da Vinci.  This is a nice follow up to yesterday’s piece—it is the next step.  After we define what matters to us, then the next step is to take action on it and create that life we envision, doing the things we enjoy and love.  Life has a way of putting us on the right path, of guiding us and getting us where we need to be, but in order for things to actually happen, we have to take the steps and actions and DO the work necessary.  I spent my time checking boxes and mentioned yesterday that I didn’t know how to create my own boxes, and this speaks to creating those things ourselves.  Accomplishment isn’t about checking the boxes off of someone else’s list and waiting for things to come across our paths.  We need to start walking and doing the work to define what matters and what success is. 

The things we set goals for, no matter what they are, will not get done without us doing something—and if we really want it then we can’t assume the universe will throw it in our laps without doing it.  Life gives us the ingredients but it is up to us to put it all together and make the thing.  This also adds the element that we create the recipe as well.  I’ve watched my family create an entire way of being—we had our own businesses, my great-grandparents came here from another country to start their family, so I’ve been witness to the creation of something grand from nothing more than an idea and making the first move.  I’ve seen first hand how the universe puts things in motion when they are aligned.  There is ease in it.  I’m not saying creation is easy, but I am saying that the pieces come together easily when they are meant to be and we have decided the track for us.  And if the path isn’t quite right, we go out and blaze a trail.