100

I saw a video on TikTok today about the 100-desires method (by @traceygee.me) : « write down a list of 100 desires. 100 things you want. Nothing is too big or too small. Include professional and personal desires. Don’t get caught up on being realistic. The point is to expand your awareness of what you really want and your sense of abundance ». So I started writing the list.

There are a few steps in the process, and I’ve only just started. And it’s surprisingly hard. Also, I haven’t written anything completely unrealistic so far, and I wonder if I should do something about that (should I go for bigger? Am I limiting myself?). It would require some hard work, sure, but it’s doable.

So why am I not doing it?

Also today, I read Ryan Holiday’s latest Daily Stoic email and, per usual, it’s absolutely on point. Here is what struck me :

« The purpose is to become the kind of person that can do it. How do you expect to do the big things that scare you—that scare others—if you haven’t practiced them? Why do you think you can endure the cold reception of a bold idea if you can’t even endure cold water? How can you trust that you’ll step forward when the stakes are high when you regularly don’t do that when the stakes are low? What gives you any confidence you’ll do the hard thing when people are watching if you can’t do that even when no one is watching? »

Well, here is to doing it.