Today is a great day. I'm beginning today with a mission. And, though I sometimes need mindless work, I do believe there needs to be a mission in the background that we connect with to be truly optimized.
And, I've been thinking about that a lot... optimization... exhaustively.
In a world with so much data at our fingertips, it's difficult not to want to synthesize it all into a better way to live each day, an optimized diet, an optimized night's sleep, behavior that assists one in living in the now while protective of one's future self. And no offense, but most doctors have no clue about this, they are trained disease treaters not health optimizers. It's just not their specialty.
And it's really kind of necessary right now.
We are still essentially, physiologically a paleolithic man running around in an alien world with tons of light in the night sky and 24 hour access to processed food. We are so stressed not by running from big predators, but from instagram posts or not getting 4,000ish steps. It's still super foreign to this huge part of us, and it is stressing us the $#&% out!
We used to have a successful day of earthly survival if we gathered enough food, now we need to get to work on time to some random job and keep health insurance. It's probably bizarre to the majority of our cellular leanings.
I've been doing a lot of learning on this and am anxious to hone it and share it.
But, today I'm really on missions and that is the WHY. They come in this whisper, and require intention to hear and follow. I think they maybe get whispered into the wind in the tree tops.
I need so much time outside and alone to get closer to mine. But it's critical for the future of everyone that we each do this. Our callings work together to bring a best connected end. It may not be our 9-5 job that we work on this mission. But, still, it needs to be complimentary of the overall calling, not work against it.
I recently was enriched from a podcast featuring Todd Herman by the lesson that humans are separated by our ability to imagine. I always thought it was our capacity to love, but my dog loves better than I do, so there's that. I believe he is right. It is our imagination. And, our mission is usually imaginative of something that doesn't exist yet we need to work on. I'm excited to go imagine and to tinker and to fulfill.
Blessings, have fun!
Dev
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