Every one of us has a list of things we want to do in life. We wait for someday to do them. There’s a million and one excuses why we can’t do them now. Fear is one of those excuses. So is doubt.
“I don’t have enough money”
“I don’t have time to do it right now”
“I’ll do it when the kids are older”
“I’ll do it when I retire”
All those things are just excuses. You can find more excuses NOT to do something than you can find reasons TO do it. It’s easy to talk yourself out of what you really want to do when you can find so many reasons not to do it.
The longer you keep putting off what you want to do the harder it is to keep it in your sight. Eventually, it’s so far off in the distance you don’t know how you’ll ever do it. That someday will eventually turn into never.
When never comes knocking at the door it brings a companion named regret. When they show up someday has already been pushed off the porch. Never and regret didn’t even have to work hard to overcome someday because someday didn’t even put up a fight.
Eventually, never leaves and all that’s left is regret. Regret will never leave. It will stay with you forever. Regret settles deep into your gut and you can’t make it go away.
Don’t let never happen. Don’t let regret happen. Don’t even let someday happen. Kick fear and doubt out of the way. Let NOW happen instead.
Go do the thing.
Go do it NOW.
Go take that trip across the country to see your son.
Go take the art classes you’ve always wanted to take.
Go take Qi Gong classes with your husband.
Go write that book you always said you wanted to write.
Go dig crystals out of the earth in the mountains.
Go buy another house after you lost the other one you had.
Go see that old friend you haven’t seen in such a long time.
Go walk barefoot on the beach with your best friend and soul mate.
Just go do the thing…….whatever the thing is.
Do it now so you don’t have regrets later.
Go do the thing…..
Beautiful!! I love the way you write! Always so helpful when you break it down like you do.
Thank you, Trish. Writing is how I have always worked through grief. It’s very cathartic for me. Internalizing things makes them fester. Eternalizing them helps them to heal. I’ve got a whole lot of writing in front of me to do. It’ll be a long road for sure.