Waiting For Someday…

One thing I learned during my bout with cancer is that the time we are blessed with is limited and tends to be used up all too quickly. Consequently, how we utilize that time is one of the most important decisions we make. Yet it still seems far too easy to put off until tomorrow what we are dreaming of today. The fast and sometimes chaotic pace of existence today often affords us an easy out; we tend to shelve our aspirations so we can cope more effectively with the challenges of the present… ostensibly to have more time and leisure to realize our purpose in the future. Or we tell ourselves that we will chase our dreams someday once we have accomplished our more immediate goals. However, in truth it is most often our fear that keeps us from seeking fulfillment in the here and now and because we view failure as a possibility, our reasons for delaying our inevitable success seem sound and rational. But if we ask ourselves what we are really waiting for, we discover that there is really no truly compelling reason why we should put off the pursuit of any of the dreams that sustain us.

When regarded as a question, “Why not now?” tends to drain us of our power to realize our ambitions. We are so concerned with the notion that we are somehow undeserving of happiness that we cannot see that there is much we can do in the present to begin pursuing it. On the other hand, if we look decisively at our state today and consider, “Why not now, indeed!” we are empowered to begin changing our lives this very moment. Many of us, me included, procrastinate for many reasons, from a perceived lack of time to a legitimate lack of self-belief, but the truth of the matter is that there is no time like the present and no time but the present. Whatever we aim to accomplish, we will achieve more quickly and with a greater degree of efficiency, when we seize the day and make the most of the resources we have at our disposal already.

I truly believe that all the joy, passion, and contentment you can envision can be yours right now, rather than at some undetermined far off point in time. Just remind yourself that there is nothing standing between you and your personal fulfillment…. and if you decide that today is the day for you to take your destiny into your hands, you will soon discover that you already hold the keys of fate.