How do you choose what to desire? How do you decide what to want?
For the most part, you don't. You feel it. There's a spark of interest. A gravitational pull. An undeniable call. An obsession.
You don't directly choose what to desire as much as you feel desires make themselves known to you with varying frequency and strength. Willingness doesn't work like that.
Willingness doesn't independently inject itself into you the way desire does. It doesn't constantly remind you it's there and notify you when you neglect it like desire does.
Desire is a feeling, not a choice. Willingness is a choice, not a feeling. See the difference?
There is a close relationship between desire and willingness, but this fundamental difference in where they come from creates confusion. It's easy to get lost in the mental and emotional process.
Because we feel desire, we naturally stay in that mode and try to feel our willingness. That's our mistake.
We can't feel our willingness. We must choose it. Actively, intentionally, and with purpose-driven discipline.
Desire is a feeling. Willingness is a choice. When you feel a desire, transition from feeling mode into decision mode.
Feel your desire. Choose your willingness.
Brick by brick. Do the work.
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