The Gift Doesn't Expire
This has truly been a full week. I’m glad I’m able to sit down in quiet and write. I was thinking about people. Talented people and genuinely gifted people. People with something real inside them that the world has not fully seen yet, and they stop working at that gift. It isn’t because they failed or a door closed on an opportunity. What tends to happen is that somewhere in the middle of the thing they started, the resistance got loud enough and they quietly let it win. They didn’t quit just to quit, they just stopped following through.
People move on to the next thing, carrying the unfinished version of the last thing with them. The weight of it can become heavy over time. Every abandoned beginning, every gift left idle, every version of yourself you started building and then walked away from compounds over time. Every person has their reasons. There could be a lot of factors like environments, stress, and so on. Most people never name it. They just feel it. There is an awareness that they are living below what they are actually capable of. That the life they are in, comfortable as it may be, is not the full expression of what they were given to bring.
I believe every person arrives here with something. Not a general potential but a certain gift. Whether it’s a way of seeing or a way of connecting. This exists in them in a combination nobody else carries in quite the same way. You probably have met people who made you feel it. The person whose presence in a room changed the quality of the room. The person whose way of thinking solved something that had everyone else stuck. The person who, simply by being fully who they are, gave other people permission to be more fully who they are. Being in that space is like operating on another level. Then you have met the other version. The person you can sense is holding something back and has more inside them than they are letting out. The individual who started something once and stopped. The person who talks about what they used to do or what they are thinking about doing, but never quite arrived there. All of that is unfinished business with self. Internally, you know it’s all about starting.
People stop because finishing requires something that starting does not. Starting is available to everyone and feels like a possibility something great can come out on the other side. Finishing requires you to meet the version of yourself that is not ready. The version that doubts and compares, the version that wonders if what you are building is actually good enough to deserve completion. Now don’t get me wrong, the journey is the most important to me in my humble opinion, but it does feel good to finish. Sometimes it’s not easy to write this newsletter, but I can see how it’s helped myself and others along this journey. How it’s given people perspective of some kind in being a positive outlet. You have a gift. You already know what it is even if you have spent years talking yourself out of taking it seriously. And that gift is not just for you. It is for every person whose life it was supposed to touch. Every conversation it was supposed to change, and every room it was supposed to walk into and shift the quality of.
The gift doesn’t expire. It is available now, and it is asking you to follow through. You never know who you can show up for at a crucial moment when you’re able to step outside of yourself and tap in. Until next time…
