How May I Serve?

I want to help you, but I don't know who you are or what you need.

I can come up with "avatars" of people similar to me or similar to others who I have known, but I don't know who you are and I don't know what you need help with.

It's hard to sit in a room, alone, and feel connected to other people who you've never met and have no idea what they want or need or how to help them.

So I sit down and ask myself...

• Who needs my help?
• How may I serve?
• What can I do to help?
• What can I create?
• Who can I be for the people who need my help?
• If I don't help, what will happen to them?
• How can I connect with my people (the people I'm best suited to help) so I can actually feel the pain of me not showing up to help them?

I ask myself, as if my feeble human brain could possibly know, but the answers to questions like these don't just come out of thin air.

I can't just sit down and wring our brains out like a wet cloth and collect all the brain juice that has all the magic answers.

This isn't Hogwarts.

This isn't a Hollywood movie.

Some people are blessed with answers from an early age, answers that are clear as day. Blessed with the knowledge of exactly who to serve and how to serve them.

I wasn't.

You probably weren't either.

That's actually probably extremely rare.

That's the stuff that movies are made of.

So how do people like you and me figure that out?

How do I know what to create and who I am creating it for and why and how to help them and actually make a difference?

I think I can uncover the answers to those questions (and more) by taking chances, putting ourselves out there, and getting feedback from random strangers who accidentally stumble upon my works and let me know if I was helpful or not.

If that's true, then I can't make "wrong" works.

Whether it's writing, painting, filmmaking, or anything else that I create, the path is only made clear after I overcome the resistance of not knowing, the resistance of uncertainty, the resistance of potentially being judged, made fun of, or dismissed.

For me, Writing Is Foundational.

My path only becomes clear after I try, fail, try again, fail again, and do that every day for so many days that it would be impossible for me to NOT get better at this. Impossible for me to NOT start getting noticed getting feedback from those who find my works.

That feedback will nudge me in the right direction and help make my next steps on the path a little clearer.

And then I just keep on keeping on, staying consistent for a hundred days in a row, maybe two hundred.

Maybe more.

Before I know it, I will have a better understanding of who I am, how I fit in, and how I can help others who need the help that only I can deliver in my own unique way.

Walking this path will awaken something in me.

The things that I create will eventually awaken something in others as well.

It starts with a daily offering...

"Here, I made this. Does this help?"

This writing was my offering for today.

I made it for you.

Does this help?