Do What Makes You Come Alive

Do What Makes YOU Come Alive

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On my recent trip to Oregon something was very clear. People willing to risk everything and work hard, often prosper.

We live in a culture that dangles fame as a replacement for hard work.

Everyone and his or her dog seems to have a podcast or Youtube channel selling products or their shallow souls.

But is that really success? Is that even real?

One of the stories we’ll be telling in the coming months is about Dustin and his wife Britney.

He’s the guy in the video showing off his new wood splitter.

You know it’s the big boy version of that backyard splitter you bought at the Home Depot.  LOL

These two are not afraid to take a risk. Oh, they get the same worries you and I do when we risk but these two are able to see beyond the fear to that dopamine hit that comes at the brink of success.

We spent five days hanging out with people like them from different aspects of the Timber Industry.

These are people who have won and lost, risked and failed and who aren’t afraid to lay everything on the line to fulfill their vision. They keep going when everything around you says stop. They don’t fall back on “that’s not fair” unfair is part of the package. You learn to push through it come hell or high water.

We each need a real purpose. We all need a little more of that pioneer grit rather than sucking off the government teat or waiting for someone to come save you.  So many seem to find a fake purpose by measuring their spread sheet or the final number on their bank account ledger.

When I was riding around the woods with Dustin, you could feel the dreamer/visionary energy in everything he said. I think what stuck out the most is his desire to prosper and take the next step far outweigh his fear of failure.

I find many people today so afraid to fail they never succeed. I think I used to be less fearful of failing when someone else signed my paycheck. Dreaming and being a visionary is hard and it comes with lots of failure.

Perhaps it’s time for me to trust God, trust the process and trust that hard working son of a bit-h inside me who knows “this too shall pass.”

I think that’s what I like so much about this “Truth About Timber” season two we are just getting started with.

I’m a curious guy who asks a lot of uncomfortable questions.

I can’t stand it when people mislead and manipulate people.

Back in the day that’s what made me a good journalist.

Now I’d be fired for failing to buy into the BS narrative.

People, we’ve gotten lazy and fell under the spell of comfortable. Rather than seek the truth we settle for half-truth and frankly even blatant lies. Recently the curtain was lifted and we saw the mad wizard hiding behind the stage pulling the puppet strings. Many of you now see it and are asking questions, that’s good.

But a vast number hide behind a failed ideology and will dig in and ride it out to the bitter end.

There is a feeling one gets when the truth is finally recognized. There’s a relief that follows confirmation that that still small voice is right.

But it’s going to take hard work, really hard work to get back what has been stolen or given away for the past 40 years.

It starts by telling the truth.

You don’t have to have all the answers but you do have to dig for yourself.

What America needs is an infusion of discernment.

Doing the right thing must become more important that doing the thing that makes us feel good or worse feel like we’re better.

If you don’t understand might I suggest doing an internship with a farmer, logger, rancher, contractor or someone who actually gets his or her hands dirty.  There’s something about being that close to nature and not sucking up to the courts, that will give you the knowledge needed to find that thing that makes you come alive….and then come alive.