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“feel like” getting into action. Rituals always override
your built-in hesitation so that you can get yourself mo-
tivated in a predictable, controllable way.
If you are not a writer or painter or poet, you might
be thinking right now that this does not apply to you.
But that’s what I would call the creative fallacy. In fact,
your entire life is yours to create. There are no “cre-
ative” professions that stand apart from others, like an
exclusive club.
Martin Luther King Jr. used to say, “Be an artist at
whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be
the Michelangelo of street sweepers!”
31. Find a place to come from
Most people think they’ll feel good once they reach
some goal. They think happiness is out there somewhere,
perhaps not even too far away, but out there all the same.
The problem with putting off feeling good about your-
self until you hit a certain goal is that it may never hap-
pen. And you know all the time you’re striving for it
that it may never happen. So, by linking your happiness
to something you don’t have yet, you’re denying your
power to create happiness for yourself.
A lot of people use personal unhappiness as a tool,
as proof of their own sincerity and compassion. Yet, as
Barry Kaufman points out eloquently in To Love Is to
Be Happy With, being unhappy is not necessary. You
can be happy and also be sincere. You can be happy and
also be compassionate. In fact, loving someone while you
areunhappy does not show up like love at all.
“Love,” says the great American spiritual teacher,
Emmet Fox, “acts the part.”
Songwriter Fred Knipe talked to me recently about
how we human beings have learned to use and abuse