you can’t have no in your heart
it hailed last night. yes, frozen chunks of ice fell all over LA in a wintery weather tease. if only it were cold enough we would be buried under 3 feet of snow by now, its been raining so much here. apparently in these last 6 months we’ve already exceeded last year’s rainfall for the entire year. and i thought i was moving to the desert.
in my post-holiday procrastination during the “winter storm” i cuddled up with a blanket and watched what i expected to be a pretty dumb movie on comedy central called Joe Dirt. there was a pearl in that oyster though…i found my motto for the new year in Joe Dirt’s simple wisdom: “you can’t have ‘no’ in your heart.”
i know what he means. i just recently learned how to not look like a total idiot playing pool, thanks to my dad. my beginners luck ran out awhile ago and it was getting embarrassing when i missed the cue ball altogether, totally sober. other than getting down basic technique, i quickly realized that what made the biggest difference was believing that i was gonna sink that ball. when i was confident i was amazed how successful i was and whenever i let a doubt cross my mind, more often than not i missed the pocket. it’s as if the positivity acted as a unifying force, spreading through the electricity in my nervous system to every muscle and cell to get them to work together to put my brain’s plan in motion. and on the other hand doubt caused hesitation and spread chaos in the effort to get all the muscles to work together in one fluid motion, and caused the chance of success to go down.
i could get all nerdy on you and go off on a tangent about entropy and thermodynamics and how our whole lives are really just a struggle against the chaos of the universe…
action + positive energy -> success = order
whereas
action + doubt -> less success = less order = more chaos
…but i won’t because Joe Dirt said it much more simply: “you can’t have ‘no’ in your heart.” that’s my resolution for this year, to banish “no” from my heart and mind. it’s ambitious i know, but you can’t hit what you don’t aim at.