I will be honest, sometimes it gets to be discouraging going after your dreams. It can be often a road traveled alone. Encouraging yourself to keep pushing forward. But when you see a vision for yourself, it’s always worth pursuing. Even with people in your corner, few will see the excitement of your idea as you do. Because it is YOUR vision. Keep going anyway! That’s why it’s important to keep your idea fresh in your mind and build something toward that every day. Setting new goals to reach and check off will keep you excited and your vision moving forward.
I heard a story about a man on his death bed with regrets of all the opportunities he had wasted, all the things he wished he would’ve done. Now only having hours left to live with no time left to do any of them. I heard that story when my kids were little and has reminded me countless times that we only have so much time to love more, do more, and be more. It keeps me mindful of living in the present moment. To be present. Not just with our loved ones, but in everything we do. To work on that thing now. Because goals don’t just happen, and we shouldn’t wait until the kids are grown. Or when we have a better job. Or whatever the excuse is. I have a past of anxiety and depression. We will get into that another time, but that’s when I began to learn how to change my mindset. I realized that anxiety was fear of the future, and depression was guilt about the past. You can’t be present in either state of mind. Right now, is all we have.
With that thought in mind, would you change how you operate from day to day? It always puts things into perspective for me. Those interruptions from our kids are opportunities. You see the aggravations of having to stop what you’re doing and help your partner as a chance to spend time with them. The little things we let get under our skin that keep us at odds. None of it matters. Let it go.
All the ideas you hope to someday get around to depend on you now. I hope this will cause you to ask yourself some hard questions. Will you be proud of what you've accomplished at the end of your life? Are you being all you can be to those in your life? Time is not on our side. Days and months pass more quickly the older we get. Looking back on 2020 seems like no time. And that was four years ago! Doesn't seem real.
It takes a conscious effort to start living in the moments when we normally operate on autopilot.
Play with your children while they are little, because time is fleeting. They won't always be interested in spending time with you. Stop fighting with that person you chose to spend your life with. Enjoy them. Cherish them, they may not always be around. Work through those resentments you are holding onto. Little inconveniences only ruin your day if you allow them to. Stop allowing it! I promise when you are at the end of life, you’ll wish you’d given less energy to shit that doesn’t matter. Be present and do all the things now!
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