There’s a part of me that wants life to be everything that it can be. That wants to live a no-holds-barred, petal-to-the-metal, extreme, radical existence.

And there is this other part of me that wants life to be easy.

Of course, no matter how I live, there will be plenty of times that life isn’t easy. However, I think it’s likely that there will be more resistance, difficulty, tears, and pain when taking that road less traveled, the upper path of a radical existence. Even if that wasn’t the case, it’s hard to deny that such a life requires more from us than going with the flow and simply taking what comes along.

And this isn’t to say that every moment will be action-packed. If you look at the lives of many of the greatest men and women who ever lived, you will see that much of their time was spent doing many normal things. Obviously, you don’t receive a get-out-of-the-mundane-free card just for deciding to live your life passionately. You’ll still have plenty of time to wash the laundry and take out the trash.

However, with the choice to lean forward and go for the gusto, I think we’ll start to have more of those incredible moments. We might even find that we start enjoying even the mundane times a little more.

Why not find what things you were really made for, the things that thrill you (if you don’t already know)? Get tuned into that – so that you have this on your mind and in your heart – even when you’re doing laundry. Don’t avoid the things you dread; run through them, past them, into the things you were made for.

If you could do anything, what would it be? What’s keeping you from that?