Die Empty

Die Empty talks about the importance of following your dreams and aspirations, living a meaningful, active life, and using your native gifts to create a legacy and inspire others to tap into their own potential as well.

First thing first, let’s talk about being a developer. According to the author, a developer is someone who does three types of work: mapping, making, and meshing. Mapping means defining your goals, or your map in life. Making is obviously the part where you do the actual work, while meshing is about developing skills to grow and evolve.

A developer encompasses all those fields and ultimately reaches self-actualization. However, too few of us reach that stage. Some get lost on the way and become one of the three:

A driver (someone who does the mapping and making, but no meshing). A drifter (the person who does the making and meshing, but omits mapping). A dreamer (no making, but lots of mapping and meshing)

Sadly, without all three, chances of achieving our full potential and building something valuable with our inner resources drop significantly.

Mediocrity – the single worst enemy of excellence, and probably the one thing that keeps you from achieving your full potential. Mediocrity keeps people in their comfort zone, allowing them to compromise on their highest potential. Frankly, most people live in mediocrity.

Their condition is far too comfortable to change, yet not good enough to satisfy them. According to A. Maslow, failing to achieve the top of the hierarchy of needs will eventually haunt us, making us feel miserable. Deep inside, you know what you’re capable of and where you should be heading, but are you brave enough to pursue it?

The cure to this vicious cycle of self-sabotage is to try and live your best, most inspiring life every day. There’s an imagination exercise that you can try, according to the author. Say you have someone taking note of your every action for a day, then turning all that into a biography about you that everyone will know about. How’d you act then?

What would you do now, if you knew someone was learning from you? Practicing this exercise can help you get inspired, motivated, and realize what a purposeful day looks like to you. Moreover, it’ll help you take concrete steps toward your goals and implicitly, towards self-fulfillment. Help yourself do away with the negative talk and self-sabotage and take concrete action, starting right now!

Growth is an incremental process, and much like everything valuable in life, it takes time to build. Becoming the person we want to be can only happen if we know how that version of ourselves looks like and establish a plan of action.…