Wanting to be VS doing
When I was a kid I wanted to be a fireman when I grew up…or a superhero. But I like my sleep, and not even close to being in shape to fight fires…or villains.
Later in life I thought I might want to be a teacher. Then I realized I really just wanted the summers off.
I never really thought I’d be a designer. I never really thought of myself as a creative, and certainly not an artist.
But that’s what I’ve been doing and that’s what God has created me to be. And I love it.
The difference is in the doing.
It is easy to want to be something. We want to be great parents, great spouses. We want to excel in our career, we want to change the world.
It’s hard to do. It’s hard to stop working and and spend the day looking for a car for my oldest. It’s hard to put down the controller just as I wipe out the entire team in Call of Duty to play “you can’t get me” with my youngest. But by doing those things, I become a great dad.
It’s hard to push through easy ideas to find a great idea, an idea that will be even harder to develop but infinitely more effective in catching people’s attention. It’s hard to not settle on the obvious and dig deep for an original way to communicate that moves people. But by doing those things, we become great designers.
So many times we get pumped up and write out our lists of goals. We make them big enough to be dreams, but small enough to be attainable. But are those nothing but words and ink on paper without action? We need to dream. We need to say out loud “I want to be…” and then we need to take a deep breath, roll up our sleeves and do what it takes to be that which God has called us to be. It most likely will not be easy, but it will be rewarding.
You will love it.
