Ever get frustrated about where you are? Like you can see your goals and dreams, but you can’t reach them. You’ve got debt or commitments keeping you locked in place.
Or maybe you’re still afraid of the unknown. You worry about the possibility of drowning in uncharted waters.
Everybody’s got some kind of chain around them preventing them from doing what they really want. We’ve all used the excuses at one time or another. We doubt our abilities, and tell ourselves, “I could never do X, because of Y.”
What are your chains? What do you think is holding you back?
Now, what are you going to do about it?
You can bitch about it. You can complain about how you could never pull it off.
Or you can try like hell.
Choice is yours.
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Perfect timing! April is my month to start DOING.
Awesome!
I love that part about “You worry about the possibility of drowning in uncharted waters.” Was it Mark Twain who said “You’ll never travel the ocean without losing sight of the shore.”? Or something like that?
Nice short post, Kellie.
Elle, what do you have planned for this month?
Thanks Joe! That does sound Twain-ish, doesn’t it?
Ahhh Kellie Kellie.
Then when you DO jump and “just do it” you get fearful of it being the wrong decision too.
Catch 22!
True, but fearing the wrong decision is no reason to not do anything at all. I usually think I’m going about it wrong every other day or so!
But at least going about something is better than coming up with reasons not to. If the decision does turn out to be the wrong one, at least you can regroup and go another way. Paths aren’t set in stone.
Rationalizing/making excuses is so easy to do…I’m as guilty as the next person but I definitely am trying to avoid the “I can’t do X because of Y mentality” you refer to.
Closing in on the last couple months to the deadline I’ve given myself to quit my comfortable well-paying job and do some extended solo traveling. Pretty much have no idea how its gonna turn out..but like you said sometimes you have step up if you really want something.
Deadlines are great for squashing excuses. Let me know how yours turns out!
Tremendous monthly overhead is keeping us from truly experiencing life. I won’t say how much but goodness we could probably feed a small country each month on what we consider the nesseciities of life. We have slowly started to pare down our life/possesions and it seems to have gained us a bit of momentum. We can see an increase in the speed of our debt dissapearing as we continue to search inside ourselves and decide if we truly “need” the stuff we have. As we find out we can live with something we have found great blessings come into our lives in other forms. Its kinda cool.
It is pretty cool, once you start eliminating the stuff that’s holding you back. Debt is still a big one for me, but I’m chipping away at it much faster now too. And once the momentum builds up, there’s no stopping you. =]