I find myself thinking about what I want to do before I do it, and recently the thought of what makes me take the final leap from the plateau of inaction to the motion of the creative state has been intriguing to me.

I think about what it is that makes me reach my threshold of “okay, that’s enough thinking, the right time to act is now”. Duty is a state of mind that I can use to motivate myself to get things done. It is a result of understanding the effects of what I do and contemplation on what the likely outcome is if I do not do it.

The way I see it is that although a powerful motivator, duty is often linked with a state of lack and the resultant sense is one of sacrifice. For example – I have to get up, STOP (sacrifice/loss) relaxing and take out the rubbish. My mentality is often about the fact I HAVE NOT (lack) taken out the rubbish and I now have to, therefore sacrificing my relaxation time. There is nothing inherently wrong with these perspectives but they can leave me feeling like there is something missing. Regardless, I choose to use duty as a tool where necessary, to grasp consequence and I can even find myself taking pride in accomplishing tasks I see as my duty at times, though other times, I don’t allow pride to form as I label accomplishments as ONLY duty therefore voiding them of the privilege of deserving gratification.

The alternative I have considered is to frame action from a place of Love and Desire. It is interesting how I am positioning love and desire as an alternative to duty when they can co-exist. I think the framing is what has all the effect.

Love that inspires action, leaves me feeling energised and fulfilled as opposed to stressed and fatigued. The desire part is where I think the golden nuggets are. To move with the essence of creation at heart is to actualise our highest state. To consider an ideal reality and lovingly move to creation and manifestation of it is the highest virtue. (I will definitely be making more broad statements like this – yeah I said it, quote me 😝)

I think that duty is a valuable tool in the arsenal of my mind but I want to move more from a place of love and desire, then, when I complete tasks my being is in alignment with my ideals and the manifestation of them as opposed to the avoidance of the lack of them.

Framing.

‘Till next time 👋🏿