What Happens When You Stop Reacting to Life — And Start Creating
I used to wake up already disconnected.
Going to a job I didn’t care about.
Doing tasks I didn’t choose to do.
Living a life that didn’t feel like mine.
Why?
Because I was living life in reaction- not creation.
And honestly, most of us do.
We never took the time to look inwards.
To understand what really matters to us.
Because we were never told how.
Instead of living in alignment with our true selves, we follow the shiny objects.
Money. Security. Approval. Entertainment.
That's the trap of extrinsic motivation.
Extrinsic motivation will make you feel lost in life.
No reward means no action — no growth — no purpose.
This is where you lose touch with the sense of meaning.
That was me.
Always looking for new job opportunities. Quitting every project I started.
Just dabbling around.
How can you love life if that's what you have?
How can you love anything if you’re not engaged?
That's when I came across a book that shifted everything.
“The past of Least Resistance” by Robert Fritz.
Robert Fritz talks about how most people:
- Live in a reaction state.
- They wait for circumstances to shape them
- They have no clear goal
- They hope that purpose find them
And that hit me hard. I was one of them.
Chasing comfort. Awaiting commands from my boss. Looking for distractions.
I wasn’t creating anything. I wasn’t providing real value. Meaningful value.
Not my career. Not my path. Not my life.
I was just responding to what others expected from me.
But Fritz gives the blueprint to reverse that dynamic.
You can live from intention, instead from random circumstances.
This book will give you a system to do exactly that — live a life with intention and succeed.
There is a way of breaking out of this rut-cycle.
Out of the boring and meaningless responsibilities that are sucking the life out of you.
Instead of reacting, you must create.
Ever heard about the concept of extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation?
I can tell you right now, most of what you do is extrinsically motivated.
Whatever you do, you probably do it for a reward or a payment.
If you wouldn’t get that reward, you wouldn’t do it.
I bet you can think of something right away.
What if we shifted your life from extrinsic motivation to intrinsic motivation?
Intrinsic motivation means:
- Choosing what matters to you
- Creating, not reacting
That means whatever you do, you do because you want to do it.
It has meaning to you. You enjoy doing it.
It’s authentic to who you are.
The Path of Least Resistance made that shift for me.
It exposed why I kept quitting projects.
Why I couldn’t motivate myself to keep going.
Why I lost interest.
Think about a moment when you quit a project.
What was the reason?
Was it getting too hard?
Did you suddenly lose interest?
It probably had something to do with you not being intrinsically aligned with that thing.
And this is what this book is about.
It taught me to create from the inside out.
It taught me to approach life with authenticity and what it takes to get a successful outcome.
I now start to decide based on
- Authenticity
- Passion
- Purpose
Once you start to develop clear intentions, your whole outlook on life will change.
You’ll see what’s possible for you.
Where is the authenticity in your life?
Authenticity is what makes life great.
Authenticity is what makes you engaged.
You’ll stop chasing.
You’ll start creating.
If you really want that, this book is for you.