Source: The Source of Your Life Lies in Excitement.

Three times a week

I saw an introduction to this book on note.
Is this what they call a state where the book is calling out to you?

Thinking about it calmly, I suppose it was just a coincidence that the note system led me to a related post, but I like these kinds of encounters.

It is an old book published in 1999.

Having started note about two years ago and learned that outputting and taking action are important, I have now realized just how amazing this book is.

Your dormant 'likes' will be awakened!

Let's learn together!💪

Excitement First

What this book wants to convey is, above all, excitement first.

'I'm excited, but I don't have the talent, ability, or aptitude...' Have you ever given up on your excitement for reasons like that?

If you like it, if it makes you excited, you should just take a step forward. If you keep at it, you will eventually get better. This book supports that power to take a step forward.

No need to compromise in life!

It is possible to make all your dreams come true!

Become the true protagonist!

The Lie of Prioritization

You must not prioritize your excitement!

This is what surprised me the most.

In work and everything else, I thought 'it's natural to set priorities'. It cuts right through that conventional thinking.

All excitement is equally important.

Simultaneous execution of excitement

Execute all excitement simultaneously!

Everything, I mean everything. "Not prioritizing" means "doing it all."

For example, suppose you have 50 things that excite you. Then this book says, let's do all 50! Not a single one should be missing!

It's at a level where you think, "I don't quite understand what you're saying." (laughs).

But,

words that make you stop and think appear in this book. They are the following words.

"Do not live a life of excuses."

Words the author's father said on his deathbed. It
felt like it pierced me deeply.

If I were to die right now, my life might be a life of excuses.
I'm over 40, so I'm at the halfway point of my life.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life making excuses.

The author's words, "Then let's do all the exciting things!" feel very attractive.

Overcome "excuses" with a small step!

Not prioritizing excitement, or
executing everything at the same time,

"No way, that's impossible, right!"

You think that, don't you?

- I'm busy with work
- I don't have time
- I don't have money
and so on.

Reasons why you can't will come up endlessly, won't they?

But,

that is just an excuse.

How can I make it possible?
You need a shift in perspective like that.

1. Remove "minus factors" and "zero factors"

Something you hear often lately, "deciding what not to do" is also one approach. In this book, it is also explained using the terms minus factors and zero factors.

Kick away the minus and zero factors and create space for excitement!

2. Take a "small step"

What is heavily introduced in this book is the "small step".

For the sake of your own excitement, make time for even 5 minutes or 1 minute and try doing it. If it's "reading," even one page is fine.

Lower the hurdle significantly and start working on what you can do right now.

Overcome excuses with a small step!

The "likes" that were sleeping are released

If you didn't have to think about priorities...

If you could do everything that excites you...

When you think about it that way, the "likes" that were sleeping are released.

I, too, used to suppress various things I 'liked' by prioritizing them lower in order to deepen my learning for the future.

With this book, my 'likes' have been liberated, and thoughts like 'Oh, I wanted to do this too'—regarding games, manga, light novels, and more—are coming back to me one after another.

Is there anything you 'like' that you have set to a low priority and given up on?

Stop scrolling for a moment and
try imagining 'yourself doing everything that excites you'.

What are you doing in your imagination?

What kind of expression are you wearing in your imagination?

Doesn't it make you feel excited when you imagine it?

Source x Sunflower of Success

In the Source program introduced in this book, you draw your "reason for being" and "excitement" using a picture of a wheel.

However,

I think I will combine it with the "Sunflower of Success" that appears in the book "Techniques for 'Diagrammatic Thinking' to Improve Your Intelligence" that I introduced the other day.

Originally, you would also set "fields" and such, but I haven't reflected that yet.

Also, in this book, it is stated that "you don't need to set goals." This is also surprising. On the other hand, "deciding on a direction to aim for" is important to stay grounded.

My previous Sunflower of Success looked like the one below, and it was quite empty. The curse of prioritizing things makes it hard for excitement to even come to mind.

By reading this book, the excitement that had been suppressed comes overflowing out one after another.

Once the overflowing subsides to some extent and I evolve this diagram further, I would like to add it to my profile.

Summary

You only have one life,
why not just do everything you want to do?

Now that I have read this book and it has truly resonated with me, it feels like such an obvious truth.

Work, time, money, relationships.
It was I who was making excuses and setting limitations.

This book says to do what excites you right now, but I think I'll go at my own pace. Still, I want to realize everything I want to do, one small step at a time.

For now, maybe I'll read a novel for the first time in a while!

That's all for today's lesson. Please come back again. 👋

Reading period: 2022/09/10-2022/09/22
First edition published: 1999/10/16

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