Are you putting off life?

December 18th, 2008 by admin

“Your life is right now! It’s not later! It’s not in that time of retirement. It’s not when the lover gets here. It’s not when you’ve moved into the new house. It’s not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it’s not ever going to get better than right now–until it gets better right now!” ~ Abraham ~

Yesterday we talked about the new year and new year’s resolutions. Although new year’s resolutions can be good for some, for most it is simply away of procrastinating. This is the reason that most fail to keep up their resolutions.

Making new years resolutions is like doing it tomorrow. The time for action is now. Many people start resolutions on January 1st and by February or March are back to their old habits. They tell themselves that they tried. Now they can relax until January 1st the next year.

As long as you tell yourself you are going to do something it will not get done. It is up to you to decide what you want out of life and then do what it takes to get it.

If you continue on your present course, think of how you will feel on your deathbed. Will you have regrets for things you wanted to do but didn’t? Will you be at peace knowing that you lived your life to the fullest and accomplished what you intended to?

The choice is yours. The decisions you make today determine the direction you take. You can take action or you can think about it. Which one do you think is productive?

It is time to take stock of your life. Not because of the coming of the new year, but because it is now. Now is all we have and each moment we are inactive is a moment lost.

This makes life a little tricky. After all we are a society of instant gratification. In making our dreams come true we cannot do so instantaneously, so many do not even try.

We cannot have our dreams come true instantly but we can work on them daily. If you have a dream of becoming a lawyer, you cannot become a lawyer today. You can however start the process. You can decide on a school and start the process of enrolling.

If you want to be a millionaire, you cannot become one today, unless today is lottery day and you won. You can sit down a formulate a plan and start putting that plan in action.

So what are your dreams? Don’t wait until the new year to start working on your dream, start today, this very minute. You know that you can do it.

Don’t listen to that voice that tells you that you cannot. Go deeper and gather the courage to begin. Beginning is the hardest part. After you begin is gets easier.

TODAY’S TIP: Make a habit of giving yourself a pep talk first thing in the morning, every morning. This helps to set the tone of your day and you will accomplish more.

Will you start today or tomorrow?