HOW TO LIVE ON THE EDGE.

LEARNING TO WALK THE FINE LINE BETWEEN PASSION AND INSANITY

Jumping off a cliff? Skydiving? Ok, hot air ballooning, maybe scaling the Everest. Perhaps even doing illegal shit that could put you behind bars.

Is that the idea of living on the edge? Or is it something else?

Do you need to be insane to live on the edge? Can everyone do it? Is it difficult? How do you do it? What exactly is it in the first place?

Living on the edge is simply one word.

ACTION.

It is about DOING things. Things that you love.
It is chasing your dreams, following them to the darkest places and yet never losing sight of them.
It is that fire, it is that passion, which makes your heart race and drum in your chest.
It is each moment so fantastic and explosive, yet filling you with a sense of peace and contentment.
It’s being scared, because of the unpredictability, yet excited at the endless possibilities.
It is going to bed exhausted every day, yet being happy about it.

Living on the edge is about having fun.

Every moment of our lives should be lived like that.

It’s easy to talk about living on the edge, but what about actually doing it?

Am I being realistic?

We need money to be able to survive and continue doing the things we love. Some of us can earn money by doing things we love, but most of us aren’t that fortunate. We don’t choose our passions based on their financial advantages now do we?

But wait a minute. Why am I saying that we can’t live on the edge by doing our jobs?

We need ACTION to live on the edge, right?

So here is where we go wrong.

We associate earning money with action.

The action consists of waking up every day, reaching the office, working harder and harder at our jobs, and coming back tired in the evening just to repeat the whole cycle again.

Because the ACTION in our lives becomes earning, we hate it.

Since we are drained, tired and uninspired, we naturally gravitate towards the complete opposite of ACTION aka INACTION, which we fondly call “chilling”.

We start associating “living the life” with INACTION. This could be things like binge-watching Netflix because you “totally deserve a break from work”, going on vacations, lying on the beach, and for a lot of people, just sleeping all day.

Our idea of happiness is to earn a lot of money, “retire early” and chill, sleeping on an island or something.

This is wrong. Think back to your 5-year-old self. This is not what they would want. They were full of dreams and ideas and plans and energy!

Living on the edge is not “chilling” and it’s not working hard at your job just so you can get your paycheck. It’s not this kind of action, and it is definitely not inaction.

It is the ACTION of a totally different quality. Action which is exciting, thrilling and life-changing. Meaningful, fulfilling and fun.

A story:

He had hunger. He had passion. He lived on the edge. He could’ve stayed that floor trader in Chicago and watched TV on the weekends, but he did not. Even in his late fifties and sixties, he broke world records.

He was rich. He didn’t need to lift a finger again to work. EVER. But he did. Why?

He just wanted to keep doing what he loved!

Elon is now a pioneer of cutting edge technology, brilliant innovation, and exciting ideas. His everyday work is literally to figure out how to make commercial space travel a reality, inspiring more 9-year olds to become astronauts in the process, and to make Mars livable. By working on this, he is not only doing what he loves but also aiming to solve one of the major problems the world faces today.

Learn that new skill. Start that new business. Go for that trip you’ve been wanting to take for years. Move to that city. That book in your head? Put it down on paper. Start that blog and put that video out.

Life is too short. Live on the edge. DO things. Be in ACTION and never stop chasing your dreams and fulfilling your passions.

Not to endorse or anything, but Nike got it right.

Just do it.

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