Will
There are many moments in our lives when we will become overwhelmed with the busyness of life. Whether it involves taking care of those you love or working 40 hours a week at your place of employment or something as simple as catching up on a favorite show or working on a side project, sometimes life can seem to be more of a routine and static than dynamic and interesting. Now I’m not saying that doing those things are not important, or even that they should be avoided or neglected. What I am saying is that there is a difference between getting things done and doing things with a purpose.
One driving factor in my life is the urgency to do something meaningful. I have noticed that there are activities which are not helpful to me in making me a better person that I was before and I have been putting more of an effort into cutting them out. A discovery that I want to share with you, although you may already know it, is that life is short and, at the same time, full of opportunities and pleasures. We can choose to consume our lives with whatever makes us happy, or whatever seems to be the easiest, but, more often than not, those items are not going to be of benefit down the road. There needs to be a point, an awakening, in our life when we choose to live for something and to become “someone”.
In Meg Jay’s book, The Defining Decade, she writes how it is in our twenty-somethings that our brain caps off its second and last growth spurt and it is in this last moment that our brains are rewired for adulthood and who we will become. Yes we can change later down the road, but it will be much more difficult to do so then, as opposed to now. A claim she makes is that if we want to change who we are and who we will be become, we would find it best to do so during that growth spurt.
Hopefully, what we choose to become and what we choose to do will be something of worth and something which will leave a lasting impact on those around us and in this world. And if I can impart some more wisdom from my short time here, it is that there is nothing greater than doing the will of God. That there truly is nothing more satisfying, meaningful, and joyful than devoting one’s life to a cause higher than our own.
In Meg Jay’s book, The Defining Decade, she writes how it is in our twenty-somethings that our brain caps off its second and last growth spurt and it is in this last moment that our brains are rewired for adulthood and who we will become. Yes we can change later down the road, but it will be much more difficult to do so then, as opposed to now. A claim she makes is that if we want to change who we are and who we will be become, we would find it best to do so during that growth spurt.
Hopefully, what we choose to become and what we choose to do will be something of worth and something which will leave a lasting impact on those around us and in this world. And if I can impart some more wisdom from my short time here, it is that there is nothing greater than doing the will of God. That there truly is nothing more satisfying, meaningful, and joyful than devoting one’s life to a cause higher than our own.
The postmillennial midlife crisis is figuring out that while we were busy making sure we didn’t miss out on anything, we were setting ourselves up to miss out on some of the most important things of all. It is realizing that doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better. - Meg Jay ~ The Defining Decade
WOD:
100 double-unders
3 rounds of:
20 Alternating pistols
20 Burpees
20 95# Sumo Deadlift High Pull
100 double-unders
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