The Challenge

What do you do when life presents you with a new challenge? Do you rise to the occasion, or shrink away in fear? Me, I excel under pressure. What is it in us that makes us push through, to actively seek new challenges, rather than coast through life with as little effort as possible?

I watch Z and see so many sides of her both her father and me. She never wants to sit and just be, she has a need to constantly seek and explore and learn. Whatever it is, she links it to what she knows and tries to figure out the rest. At 3 she is more self motivated than 1/2 of the adults that I have ever known. The thing is, all 3 year olds are like that. When do people lose that drive to pursue their sense of self and exploration?

At any given time I have at least 4 projects that I am working on, 2 books that I am reading, and long term goals I am struggling to achieve. I still manage to exercise, cook and clean as necessary, and above all, spend numerous hours with my loved ones. How do people go to work, go home, watch TV and go to bed, feeling that their life is complete?

Honestly I know that all of these things would be better done if I simply focused attention on one at a time, but I don't want to burn out on any of them. Instead I spend a few minutes here and there, or a few hours as needed, to satisfy the urge to learn or create, then move on to the next.

How do people become stagnant? I think they lack love, and therefore motivation, to be better than what they are. They have no reason to become the person they were meant to be, rather they flounder away as the person they are, never knowing what they are missing.