Sunday Story...What are you Waiting for?

I mean, really, what are you waiting for? All around you people are in stasis, not moving at all. People are stuck, and they like being stuck. It is easy and requires us to do nothing. All we have to do is nothing, what could be easier. Just sit on the couch, sit back and let things happen around you. You really can do nothing if you choose it.

On the other hand, once you do something isn’t it almost always easier than you thought? How many times have you put off doing something because it sounded hard, you were afraid you might fail, or you were just flat out scared and then when you went ahead anyway you were amazed at how simple it was?

I had a couple conversations about this just in the last couple days. In one, my friend told me that she would never have tried CrossFit if she had been told what the workout looked like. She said there was no way she would ever have believed that she could do any of those things. Yet several months later she is doing all of them and more. Is it hard? Yes it is. Is it easy? Never. Is it fun? Absolutely. Yet it took that first step into the unknown, that looking under the bed for the monster only to find the monster didn’t exist. Today she rocked 3 different workouts that would have been unheard of 4 months ago.

You have to stop waiting. There is nothing standing in the way except for the self imposed limits you are putting on yourself. You can choose to climb the mountain, jump from the airplane, learn the language, or get a new career. You do not have to accept the status quo. You just need to decide to get out of your own way and get moving toward whatever it is you want to be moving toward. You are not serving yourself by waiting. You are depriving the rest of us, the rest of the world of your greatness, of your effort.

Action is scary. I get it. The height of the rope is scary. The weight on the bar is scary. The workout is scary. Baring your soul is scary. Opening your heart is scary. Living on the edge is scary. I get all of it. But inaction is death. And that is way scarier, isn’t it? Wouldn’t you hate to wake up in the morning and have inaction forced upon your life? Wouldn’t it be a tragedy for all of us not to revel in your effort and your success and learn from your failure? How old will you be next you if you don’t do it now?

The fact is simple: you gain nothing by waiting. There is no prize for procrastinating.
Stop waiting and get moving. Behold the turtle. He gets no where without sticking his neck out!
Stick your neck out and get somewhere!

Namaste
John
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