I woke up this morning before my alarm went off and experienced that brief panic we have all had from time to time – “What day is it? What time is it? What am I supposed to be doing?”
I jumped out of bed and after debating with myself for a bit, I was pretty confident it was Thursday. How did it get to be Thursday already? Yesterday was the first day of school, officially marking the end of summer as far as my sons are concerned. Last night at dinner while discussing the first day of school, one of my sons said, “How did we get here so fast? I am just glad I had a great summer.”
After I recovered from my momentary panic of trying to figure out where I was and who I was this morning, his comment came rushing back to me. I began thinking about some of my clients and other people I encounter in my life who bring up the questions: “How did I get here? How did my life become this?”
The answer is simple – Choices.
The choices we made yesterday and the choices we made five and ten years ago - all those choices together brought us to where our life is today. This is why sometimes the present is a difficult place to be. Here lies the responsibility to make the choices that will shape our future. It comes down to choices and the fact that time keeps on passing; regardless of the choice we make in that moment, time keeps on passing.
I too often hear people say, “Well, I’ll just do this for now,” fully intending on making the change to where they really want to be later. The problem with this is either they never make that change and then wake up one day in a panic and saying, “How did I get here?” or they are living a life of constantly putting on band-aids but never actually treating the wound.
There is one very simple question we need to ask when making the choices that shape our future. In all of our circumstances and in all of our relationships we need to ask, “Does this feed my soul, or is it sucking the life out of me?” Listen to your heart, mind and soul (gut), that little voice you hear, or that little twist and turn of your stomach. When they are all in line, they know what they are talking about; together they know you better then you know yourself.
Do not sleep through your life or through the choices that shape your life. Don’t take the quick fix when making choices; start out today on the path to where you would like to end up. You do not want the day to come where you wake up in a panic and wonder what it is all about.
This is your life; are you who you want to be?
I jumped out of bed and after debating with myself for a bit, I was pretty confident it was Thursday. How did it get to be Thursday already? Yesterday was the first day of school, officially marking the end of summer as far as my sons are concerned. Last night at dinner while discussing the first day of school, one of my sons said, “How did we get here so fast? I am just glad I had a great summer.”
After I recovered from my momentary panic of trying to figure out where I was and who I was this morning, his comment came rushing back to me. I began thinking about some of my clients and other people I encounter in my life who bring up the questions: “How did I get here? How did my life become this?”
The answer is simple – Choices.
The choices we made yesterday and the choices we made five and ten years ago - all those choices together brought us to where our life is today. This is why sometimes the present is a difficult place to be. Here lies the responsibility to make the choices that will shape our future. It comes down to choices and the fact that time keeps on passing; regardless of the choice we make in that moment, time keeps on passing.
I too often hear people say, “Well, I’ll just do this for now,” fully intending on making the change to where they really want to be later. The problem with this is either they never make that change and then wake up one day in a panic and saying, “How did I get here?” or they are living a life of constantly putting on band-aids but never actually treating the wound.
There is one very simple question we need to ask when making the choices that shape our future. In all of our circumstances and in all of our relationships we need to ask, “Does this feed my soul, or is it sucking the life out of me?” Listen to your heart, mind and soul (gut), that little voice you hear, or that little twist and turn of your stomach. When they are all in line, they know what they are talking about; together they know you better then you know yourself.
Do not sleep through your life or through the choices that shape your life. Don’t take the quick fix when making choices; start out today on the path to where you would like to end up. You do not want the day to come where you wake up in a panic and wonder what it is all about.
This is your life; are you who you want to be?
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