What Are You Waiting For?

by Jonathon on October 27, 2009 · 1 Comment

what you waiting for You see that beautiful woman and you don’t approach. Why?

You see that you could start a business, and you KNOW it will work, and you don’t. Why?

There’s a promotion coming up at work that you know you deserve, but you don’t apply for it. Why?

For so long, we have lived our lives waiting for something to happen. Some spark, some form of motivation, that will lift us up and get us going.

Or, we wait until we’re “in state”.

Why?

I’m still looking for that rulebook about life, and specifically the phrase that says that we must feel a certain way, look a certain way, believe in ourselves a certain way…

… before we’re allowed to do what we REALLY want.

Your mood will pass, but what you do right now will dictate the very future you walk into: not your mood.

And yet we allow our mood to forever dictate our actions, as fleeting as this mood may be.

So I ask you: why wait?

And what are you really waiting for?

Has there ever been a time when you’ve “not really felt like it”, but done it anyway? I’m sure there has. And were you glad that you did?

Yet endlessly, we allow these “reasons” to prevent us from stepping forth into a perfectly crafted future, the one that begins now.

Life will never be fully lived in waiting, unless it is waiting in absolute presence (but it‘s not really waiting then is it: it is appreciation in action).

Your life is lived in the actions you take.

Sure, there are going to be MANY times that you don’t take the action you know you should, because of a feeling: approach anxiety is the perfect example.

And yet, it’s not really your anxiety that is preventing you from approaching. It’s you waiting for your anxiety to subside.

You are now action-less, waiting for life to happen to you, rather than living your life for your self.

Let me ask you: how much longer are you going to continue letting life live you, while you wait?

Why not live life, now, in action, and allow the rest to fall into place?

Step forward when you’re feeling down, not as your feelings, but as you, who is feeling, but will still walk the path anyway.

Don’t allow your emotions to dictate how you’ll perceive the world as you walk the path though: you’re much MUCH bigger than that.

Instead, walk the path fully experiencing your “down” emotion, open to the possibility that in one single moment your mood could completely change.

Then you will walk the path with a different experience but the same view: the one that has never changed. Ever. Yours.

Jonathon