October 1, 2024 by Dymphna

T-Bomb: You only have one job  

Truth Bomb Tuesday: It’s as simple and as difficult as that.  

There is only one thing you have to do. You only have one job.  

To be successful, to live a fantastic life, it all hinges on one simple task.  

I know that sounds strange. To most people success feels like building a massive sandcastle – you’ve got to layer grain of sand on grain of sand until you have finally built something worth admiring.  

You have to fight against gravity. You have to fight against the qualities of the sand. You have to fight against little kids who think jumping on sandcastles is fun. (I mean that metaphorically. We all know those ‘little kids.’ Ex-hubby, looking at you.) 

And success, if it comes, is a victory of a million minor achievements.  

But I don’t think that is what it is like. Or at least, it doesn’t have to be like that.  

Personally, I like to think that there is just one thing I need to do. 

My job is to make sure nothing gets in the way of my own destiny.  

My job is just to clear the road.  

You know that there is a greatness inside of you.  

We all do. It’s why the whole “princess who thinks she is a peasant girl but is actually a princess” trope is so universal.  

We all know there is a greatness inside. We all feel that. We all feel that we were ‘meant for something more’.  

And we are.  

And your destiny has its own momentum – it’s own drive. It has its own intelligence. It also has its own humour and heart-warming tenderness.  

It is a story that wants to be told.  

And in that sense, it’s not something you have to make happen on your own.  

Your job, and your only job, is just to make sure nothing gets in its way.  

I don’t want to make that sound trivial. The challenges here are substantial.  

You have to overcome your own fears and insecurities – your own tendency to sabotage yourself.  

You have to overcome a lifetime of conditioning – conditioning that tells you that you are actually a peasant girl, and parties in the castle are meant for other people.  

And you have to overcome the weight of expectation that others put on you – to just do what you are told and muck out the stables.  

The list goes on and on.  

But despite all the challenges here, the important point is that we’re not creating something out of nothing.  

We’re not piling up grains of sand – we’re not fighting against the sand’s nature and the sand’s desire to be a flat pile of uninteresting.  

The drive for our life comes from somewhere else. The energy is already there. It’s already moving.  

We just need to run ahead of it, making sure that nothing gets in its way or derails it.  

Do the work. Clear the road. 

And then just let your life unfold of its own accord.  

This is the only job you have. 

DB.