WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

I’m always amazed at how topics for my weekly blog find me. Until yesterday, I came out this blog after talked with my brother. He said, “You know most people are waiting for life to happen to them, but they don’t realize that it’s life that’s happening right now.” BANG – my mind blown.

Brother and I chatted for another 30 minutes, but I couldn't stop thinking about what he had said to me. I thought back to all the times that I had waited for life to happen for me. I was waiting for a sign from God or Life or The Uni-verse. And then one day I realized that what I was waiting for is what was doing the waiting. I thought that I needed some permission from life or some authority figure to start living my life.

We don’t want to get to a place where we had wished we hadn't waited. Here’s a guy that just took action, not waiting for life. And let’s think about this, what has waiting cost us? What has waiting for a sign actually cost us in terms of wasted time, lost opportunity and perhaps months, years of decades of wondering “What would have happened if I had tried?”

This is the worst kind of outcome I can imagine – to life a life full of regret. My deep wish for you, since you are reading this blog at this moment, is to not live life with regret, but instead full of fears faced. Life is scary. Taking risks is scary. Bad things have happened in the past that we don’t want to re-live. And yet, it’s coming to terms with these things that make us come fully alive.

There is a very fine line between excitement and anxiety. The only difference being anxiety has a negative perception of the future outcome and excitement has a positive anticipation for the future outcome.

So what if it was true that what you are waiting for is to realize that part of yourself that is doing the waiting? What if you didn’t need approval or the blessing of someone or something outside yourself?

If that were true, what would you be doing – right now?