Stop Waiting for the Path. Start Walking It
Why Life Rewards Movement in Line with Your Passions
Here’s the thesis statement for this week: You don’t get to complain that your life isn’t what you want if you’re doing nothing to change it.
Let’s start there. No sugar-coating. No comforting caveats.
If you can’t point to one thing you did today to move your life in the direction of something more meaningful, then sorry. You’re not stuck. You're just standing still.
Allow me to explain why.
Why We Give Our Power Away
We love to blame our circumstances. We defer to the energy-draining parts of life that keep us from dedicating time to the things that might actually change it.
“I’m too exhausted after work.”
“The life I want isn’t realistic.”
“I don’t have the resources to start yet.”
In making these excuses, we cede our power. We act like we’re waiting for the universe to give us permission, but here’s the truth: The universe already gave you permission.
It did it the moment you imagined something better.
Because if you can picture a version of your life where you’re doing the thing—whatever it is—then that version of you and your life already exists. Your job is to start behaving like someone who’s heading there.
You don’t need to know the full “how.” You just need to start showing up like someone who’s on the way.
You want to write a novel? Start penning a few words each day. You want to become an artist? Start making ugly art. You want to build something? Start stacking the bricks, one by one.
The 3 False Beliefs That Keep You Stuck
You’ve heard all this before. But still, the excuses persist.
In my experience, it’s because you’re carrying at least one of three misconceptions about getting the life you desire.
1. You believe you don’t have the time, energy, or resources
People often think they need the fanciest tools, the clearest schedule, or the most inspiring setup to start pursuing something meaningful. But if you look at the lives of the greatest creatives, inventors, or even small-business owners, that belief falls apart.
Most of them began with very little—writing books between night shifts, sketching on napkins during lunch breaks, or learning to code in noisy kitchens after the kids had gone to sleep.
Waiting for ideal conditions is often a disguised form of procrastination. If you’re genuinely passionate, you will find a way to begin—even if it means waking up earlier, using second-hand materials, or building momentum in five-minute pockets of time.
Because passion is a magical energy reserve. It generates its own momentum.1
So if you keep saying you don’t have the time or energy, maybe it’s worth asking whether the desire is strong enough to begin with.
2. You believe you want the life, but really you just want the end result
This might sting, but it’s worth saying plainly.
If you’re still using the excuse that you don’t have time or resources, then you probably don’t want the thing as badly as you claim. Because if you did, you’d be doing it already—even in the margins of your life.
A lot of people confuse desire with devotion. They say they want to be a writer, an artist, an entrepreneur, or whatever—but what they really want is the lifestyle that comes after someone else has already done the hard work.
The recognition. The income. The sense of achievement.
But the truth is, the end result is never going to be as sweet as you think it is, and 99% of your time will be spent slogging your way there. If you’re not enjoying that slog—if you don’t feel a pulse of something real while you’re doing the thing—you’re not going to last.
So maybe it’s time to be honest. Maybe you’ve been chasing the wrong goal. Maybe you’ve been discarding the right ones—ones you actually enjoy—because you told yourself they weren’t monetizable or practical enough.
But practicality is secondary. Simply pick something you like doing for the sake of it.
Start doing it more, even if it doesn't make sense practically, because here’s the twist: Spending time on this activity will be the most direct path to happiness—even though it may not look like it from the outside.
3. You believe following your passion won’t lead anywhere—but it will
People underestimate how powerful it is to spend time doing something they genuinely love. When you’re fully immersed in something expressive, skill-developing, or creative, even if no one sees it, even if no one pays you for it, something shifts.
In energetic terms, this is called “aligning with your frequency.”
When you’re in that flow state—so immersed that you forget time—you enter a different energetic reality. You start radiating satisfaction, joy, and gratitude. These are all high frequencies that make you magnetic, drawing your desired reality to you.2
This doesn’t mean you’ll be instantly rewarded with book deals or art shows or offers from your dream clients. It means the invisible energetic structures of your life begin to realign. You start noticing new opportunities. You attract different kinds of people.
Your own sense of identity expands to include the version of you you’ve always wanted to become.
When you feel these positive emotions in the present—ones inevitably characteristic of the future you’re aiming for—you’ll never actually need to look for your future because…
you’ll already be happy doing what you love, and;
that happiness will draw in more opportunities to continue doing what you love so you can continue being happy in a self-perpetuating cycle.
This is the paradoxical Law of Attraction in a nutshell.3
In summary: When you stop doing the thing to get somewhere and start doing it because it feels good to do, you get where you wanted to go faster and by means you could never have predicted.
So stop waiting for the evidence that you’re good enough or ready enough. Because the evidence comes after you start, not before.
Why This Matters More Than You Think
Doing something creative, expressive, or skill-developing—even for a few minutes a day—isn’t just play. It’s protection. It’s the antidote to victimhood.
Because when you can see your progress—when you can trace your own growth—it builds the kind of inner proof no circumstance can take away.
So even if everything else in your life feels out of your control, at least you’ll know you’re moving. You’ll know that every tiny action is part of the compound interest of becoming; better to be five pages into a book you’re writing than five years into a job you hate with nothing to show for it but stress and a countdown to your next holiday.
So ask yourself: What would I be doing with my time if I wasn’t trying to prove anything? What simply feels good to do?
And am I making any room for that version of me to breathe? Because if not, it’s time.
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
—Arthur Ashe
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Hawkins, D. R. (2014). Power vs. force. Hay House.
Dispenza, J. (2019). Becoming supernatural: How common people are doing the uncommon. Hay House.