#trust30 Day 6: Come Alive
Come Alive by Jonathan Mead
Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you had one week left to live, would you still be doing what you’re doing now? In what areas of your life are you preparing to live? Take them off your To Do list and add them to a To Stop list. Resolve to only do what makes you come alive.
Bonus: How can your goals improve the present and not keep you in a perpetual “always something better” spiral?
(Author: Jonathan Mead)
wishing and hoping
change your focus and begin
doing and living
Wishing and Hoping
“What areas of your life are you preparing to live?”
I think that is the key in my ongoing dilema. Preparing and planning but never doing.
I can spend hours, days, and weeks planning the best way to do something. The perfect one or two night get away, a perfect hike, the best bike ride, the perfect topic for a
post/poem/story/essay, how to read more, the best exercise/diet plan, insert great idea/activity (here).
I wish and I hope that I can get the time do do these things.
I wish and I hope that I will do them when the time is available.
I wish and hop to do/be the best.
I wish and I hope that I can learn to stop making excuses and start taking action.
I wish and hope to stop dreaming and start doing.
This is not to say dreaming is bad. Dreaming is the creative person’s most fertile field. But dreams are just a facet of planning and are not actions. Dreams are one step on the journey.
Change your Focus and Begin
“Take them off your To Do list and add them to a To Stop list. “
Stop trying to plan it all.
Stop complaining and whining.
Stop making excuses.
Stop rationalizing.
Just stop.
Start…
Living and Doing
Don’t just think obsessively about what needs to be done, or how to do it, or how it will be accepted. Just start.
As Steven Pressfield said in Do the Work,“Don’t think. Act.”
Trust in yourself and begin.
I trust my knowledge.
I trust my ability.
I trust my support.
I trust….myself.
