JUST DO IT!

"If not now, when?"

Rabbi Hillel

If you've been following our daily posts on Facebook this week (if you missed them, they are repeated at the end of today's blog) you've no doubt detected a theme:  Choose Action, begin, the time is now.

So often our hopes and dreams get blocked by our "when," "if," and "can't" thinking. I've known too many people who've put off for tomorrow what they wanted to do today, only to leave this earth - too soon -  and without satisfying their deepest passions.

Time, money and circumstances can only derail our progress if we let them.  The choice is ours. 

There is always SOMETHING we can do to keep our finger in the dream pot until we can hold it surely in our hands. So, if time is the obstacle keeping you from writing that novel, narrow your scope of possibilities. This may not be the year you can focus months of your life entirely on your writing, but you could join a writing group, or spend a few hours a week researching the themes of the story you WILL write.  If money is keeping you from living in France at this time; while stowing away those pennies, rent every French language film you can find, read every book printed on the region you WILL be living in, you'll be so much more prepared WHEN you get there! If circumstances don't allow for you to leave your current job to attend Nursing School full-time; explore some online courses, volunteer at a hospital or care center, put yourself in the environment you wish to be part of until circumstances allow you to dive fully in!

Nourishing your dreams, your heart's desires in someway, everyday, will bring you closer to your "I did it" moment.  You just have to begin, take that first step..........

JUST DO IT!!!

This weeks quotes:

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”

~ Bern Williams

"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. 

Beginning makes the conditions perfect." 

~ Alan Cohen

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, 

but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

~Maria Robinson

“All serious daring starts from within.” ~ Joan Baez

“Making a living is not the same as making a life. 

Find what makes your heart sing 

and create your own music.” 

~ Mac Anderson

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by 

the things that you didn't do than by the ones 

you did do. So throw off the bowlines. 

Sail away from the safe harbor. 

Catch the trade winds in your sails. 

Explore. Dream. Discover." 

~ Mark Twain 

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