I recently watched a documentary on Charles Schulz, the famous creator of the Peanuts comic strip (ya know, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, etc)
I have been finding myself more and more fascinated by studying the lives of people who have created the products that I have admired — I have been a Snoopy fan ever since I was a little boy. So it was a magical experience to learn more about the human who created Snoopy and how the comic strip related to Sparky’s (Schulz’s) life.
There was one line in the documentary that made me hit the pause button on life:
“I just have to draw from Monday to Tuesday to Wednesday to Thursday and it goes on and on and on…People say, uh, well why can’t you work real hard and get way ahead and then you can take a month off. That’s foolish! Well, mine is not the kind of job that I’ve worked all my life to get so that I don’t have to do it.”
As I think about growing iFeelio, as I think about growing Emotional Self-Defense, as I think about doing anything in this world, I often find myself thinking about what I want to have done. What I want to have accomplished, checked, circled, or completed.
What I love about Schulz’s words is that they remind me to do what I actually enjoy doing, not what I will enjoy having done.