SFH:Session 33 The Comeback: Start here. Don’t Wait. Create
Be Like Charlie Watts - he just keeps the beat
Dry Rain—Back Into the Fire
November 4, 2021
After eighteen months of forced stillness and reflection, Steve Hardison was across from me again. Four words spoken in the coaching shed split my reality open:
"What do you want?"
Simple, clear, and concise.
“What. Do. You. Want?”
Everything I thought I knew about moving forward, about getting back to normal, evaporated. This wasn't about recovery. This was about ignition. A simple question that seemed to come out of nowhere hit hard.
I had spent eighteen months in meditation, reflection, and stillness, hardly moving and deeply living.
Now Steve was asking me to show my work.
He demanded I declare what I'd discovered in the depths of my “In Absentia Sessions.” The softness I’d experienced was replaced with a sense of urgency.
"Really, Gary," he pressed, "what do you want to create? How do you want to spend your time in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025?"
Boom.
We were back.
Steve whispered something to me that shattered barriers I didn't know existed:
"The person with the fewest needs is the richest of all."
The words hit like lightning striking a tree and blowing it to bits.
Suddenly, I saw it. There's nothing I need. Nothing missing. Nothing to fix or chase or acquire. And from that place of zero lack—that profound emptiness that's actually infinite fullness—I can create anything. While the previous sessions were about fixing something in the way of creation, this session marked the onset of creation from where I was at.
Period.
"I don't need a thing," I heard myself say, "and there is so much I want."
Steve smiled. "Dry rain," he said. "The paradox of wanting from a place of complete abundance."
It was a pure creative force—wanting without needing. It was 100% possibility, unadulterated by need.
Charlie Watts and the Heartbeat of Truth
Steve reminded me of the time we saw the Rolling Stones together before the world came to a halt. He recalled discussing how outstanding Charlie Watts was as the drummer of the Stones. Watts was cool. Steady. Unshakeable. While chaos swirled around him, Charlie kept the heartbeat of the music tucked safely in his pocket.
"Be like Charlie," Steve said. "Don't be flashy. Don't steal the stage. Just keep the beat. Always." Charlie Watts didn't just keep time—he kept truth. Charlie Watts' drumming exemplified calm power and impact without creating any noise. While everyone else was actively performing, Charlie was simply being himself.
Keep the beat in your pocket. Move through life with that same unshakeable presence. When creation feels chaotic, when the world demands you perform or prove yourself, remember Charlie behind the kit: unshaken, unfazed, always in flow.”
It's the most poetic kind of rebellion—mastery without shouting, influence without force.
Steve implored me to refrain from waiting for perfect conditions.
”Don't wait for clarity or confidence. Just keep the beat.”
The Infinite Game
As I reflected on Charlie Watts and his way of being Charlie despite also being a rock star, Steve continued…
"Two breathing, committed people equal infinite creation."
Steve laid out the equation like he was revealing the secret of the universe. Maybe he was. You can slow creation, pause it, but you can never crush it. Life could be the ultimate game if one were willing to play.
“How much can I create today, Gary?”
There's no method. There isn't a single missing component. There is no secret sauce or seven-step system. There's only presence. Creation happens right now—by seeing what's in front of you, picking up the phone, listening with your whole being, and acting from the voice inside your heart.
Forget the fairy tale of one magic wish. This is about abundance in action. It is about coming from having.
The Fire of Simplicity
This valuable session taught me important lessons that have been deeply ingrained in my soul: Creation is not a theory. It's felt. It's lived. It's chosen.
“There's no big secret waiting to be unlocked. Just listen with the intensity of someone whose life depends on it. Observe your life with a heart so full of possibility it spills over into everything you touch.”
Every day, I ask, “What would someone need to experience to invite me into their world? What would I need to give to receive someone into the beat of my life?”
There is no explanation, no story, and no justification. Just value. Just presence. Just truth.
Truth time: I don't always live like this. I wish I did, but I don't. The beauty is in the returning. The power is in beginning again, every single day.
What Comes Next
The months ahead will be shaped by reliving this session. By this remembering. By this beat that now lives in my chest.
No more noise. No more pretending. No more trying to fix what was never broken.
From now on:
Calm power. Impact without tension. Velvet bullets straight from the heart.
The ceiling has become the floor. Everything I thought was my limit is now my starting point.
And I'm not waiting. Not for permission. Not for perfect timing. Not for the world to give me what I want.
Don't wait. Create. There is nothing missing.
Just listen and move.
The fire is lit. The beat is in my pocket. The game has begun.
Let's go.
AFTERWORD:
“Time waits for no one, and it won’t wait for me.” In the spirit of this session, I am creating a small group program with a monthly one-on-one coaching container.
Once I complete the one-year masterclass called The Economist of Spirit in August, I am evolving the program and creating a year-long space for seven individuals; this is available first to graduates of TEOS and then to those who want to apply.
The course will be about creating your project. It will be based on my personal work with The Having and The Courage to Be Disliked. These two works have been in ongoing conversation with my wife in breaking down barriers to things I had been hesitant to embark on. If you would like to have a conversation to be one of the seven, please contact me.
Much Love,
Gary
PS this post is dedicated to my Into The Fire partner, Karen Karebear Pery. Without her help in teasing out the heart of this message and using her editing skills, this post would not glimmer as brightly as it does. I owe her a world of gratitude.