What are you waiting for? The truth is, you will never reach the goal, the idea, the LIFE you are dying to get to if you don't act on it today. Today. Even if you don't know exactly what it is you are seeking, at the very least, start thinking about it. Thinking is an action and one action leads to another and another.
Get out a piece of paper and start writing stuff down. Do you want a different job? Better relationships? A more profitable or fulfilling day to day existence? A healthier lifestyle? What do you want your life to be like?
Write down everything that pops into your head. Don't judge yourself, just write. You want to be rich? Write it down. You want to be popular? Write it. You want to start a non-profit to save baby seals? Write it down.
Once you see ideas on paper, they will talk back to you. Something will stir as you look over them again and again and the choice will become clear. It is amazing how you will start to be drawn to one particular idea. If your goal is vague, start thinking about it more specifically. What EXACTLY are you looking for at the heart of your ambition? It may take a few days of looking at that paper. Keep looking, keep thinking.
Once you have a goal, figure out the steps you need to take to reach it. Even if they are baby steps, the important thing is to stay in action, keep moving yourself forward. For example: Let's say you want to be a brain surgeon, but you haven't even gone to college, you have a house full of kids and a meager income(there will be plenty of naysayers who say you "can't", don't listen to them!). Your first step might be to get your hands on a catalog from a community college near you. Catalogs and handbooks are usually less than five dollars, or available at your local library. Look up counselor info, child care info, financial aid info. Start thinking about yourself enrolled in a program. Begin to see yourself succeeding in a classroom, snuggled up on your couch at home after the kids go to bed, doing homework. See yourself as a surgeon from day 1. Step two, make the call to schedule an appointment with a counselor and let them walk you through it.
Baby steps. A catalog. A phone call. An appointment. A brain surgeon in the making.
Don't be afraid to go after what you want. You have a brain, you are smart, you can do or be anything. Go! Be that person you've always wanted to be. What are you waiting for?
Note: I would love to give credit to the artist of the above image, but can't find any info online...it is beautiful!
Thanks April!
ReplyDeleteI've been writing things down recently with two tools: an index card always in my back pocket, and a spreadsheet where I put the ideas so I can tear up the index card and start new.
My 5 y/o son and I have a list, alphabetized, of things to do together (and so we tend to do the A's first).