How?
That is the question that most often separates people from their dreams. How do I make enough money to survive? How to I get from the starting line to the finish line? It seems like most, if not all the people I encounter want some kind of guarantee regarding their dreams. That it won’t be too difficult of stressful. That after a short period of uncertainty all will be revealed and they will live their lives in perfect happiness. Anything short of that is too risky to chance.
Anyone who has worked on something ambitious can tell you that is not reality. How is not the most important question. How is what life is structured to figure out. No, the two most important questions are What and Why?
What do you want to do with your life? What do you want to accomplish? What do you what to be remembered for? A fairly big slice of humanity never answers the question what. Some because of circumstance; many because they fear the answer of their own dreams.
Why do you want to do this? That’s the twin of the question of what. Why is about motivation, what is about destination. Both are important questions to answer in order to start the process of living your life, not someone else’s.
Let’s say you want to go to Cairo. That’s the important thing, not how you will get there. You could take a boat, a plane, a train or a camel. There are lots of ways to get to Cairo but you will never get there if you don’t know that you want to go in the first place and then make the choice to go. No one is going to walk up to you one day on the street and ask “how can I help you fulfill your dream?” You have to make that happen for yourself.
How is the way people rationalize not pursuing that which they are passionate about. “If I don’t know all the steps between here and there, how can I possibly take such a risk?” Indeed. But isn’t that the point of doing something risky? How will I make enough money? How will I find clients? How will I find financing? It’s not that these questions are unimportant, it’s just that they will be answered in due time, not at the outset of the journey. You have to trust in yourself, in your talents and ability to solve problems. You can plan before you start but at some point one must begin. Don’t let how get in the way or what and why.
