The Truth About Your Situation
You know you really can’t go wrong with the road sign analogy. Road signs alert you to what’s coming; to what’s ahead; to what’s in store. Life has signs and so does success. The challenge is that they are more subtle. They also require you to be paying attention to your surroundings. If not, you will miss them…
Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.” -Ferris Bueler
QUESTION: Where are you on the road of life?
Do you have everything you want? Have you accomplished everything you want to accomplish in this life? Are your days purpose driven and focused or are they random and uncertain?
There are 24 hours in the day. Assuming 8 hours of sleep, what’s going with the other 16? How is that time filled? If nature abhors a vacuum and the time is there, it will get filled in with something. But what? What’s going in there?
ACTION IDEA: Inventory your day (for a week).
Track all activity and time for one week. You will find that you probably already have more time than you think and also become painfully aware of the time you are wasting.
So let’s look at both together and come to a logical conclusion. If the answer is no, you don’t have everything you want and what you’re doing now isn’t getting the desired result, then you have to change something.
Repeating patterns that don’t work and being stuck in the past is insanity
Insanity: in a state of mind which prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction; seriously mentally ill.”
So, is it time for change? Is it time for you to make a change? Could you make a change? Not even will you yet, just could you? Work on that part first. Just recognize that you have the option to and the ability to change. Now here’s the kicker…
To change you must give something up.
Getting rid of something old or questionable makes room for something new. There is no change by simply adding new behaviors or information. Change requires you surrender something first. What do you already know you need to give up? You’ve inventoried your time, you’ve identified where’s there’s room and you know what your doing now with every hour of your day.
What’s in your inventory that you don’t feel good about?
What needs to go? You know what it is? You’ve known for a long time. You already know the truth about your situation currently in life and I’ll even say you already know how to change it. The question now goes beyond could you change, it is now at would you? You know you can, it’s now a matter of will. Will you and will power. And it’s simple. As it should be. Out with the old and in with the new.
Change: You can, you will… but when?
