The longer you wait to do the thing, the less time you have to spend in it.  We have a similar message to yesterday’s piece about choosing to stay in the dark times, in the fight.  The longer we wait to pursue what we love, the less time we have to enjoy those things as a reality.  This is another reason to make the choice to go through.  I can’t repeat enough how often we choose suffering because we think it’s the noble thing to do.  There is enough joy and light in this universe to go around and there is no need for anyone to sit in the pit of self-doubt, fear, or sadness.  We have simply been trained that those emotions are finite and have a limit, that they are only available to people in power.  How did those people get power?  They took it and decided to make us believe that in order for some to have the power, many couldn’t have it.  What we need to remember is that the power is in us.

We were all given gifts and abilities and it’s in our power to develop and use them.  If we were given the idea, then that is the universe’s sign that we are meant to take it and run with it.  We have these feelings for a  reason, we’ve just been trained to ignore them or to believe that we are only allowed to pursue them at a certain time (usually after we’ve spent the majority of our day working on someone else’s dream).  We are told that there is time to work on those things later, that there is more time to do it when the weekend comes or later in the night.  We are never told how much of our time we need to sacrifice to pursue our dreams.  The truth is, we don’t have to sacrifice any of it, we simply have to choose better.  I’m not saying these things happen overnight, but I’m saying that the more we shift our focus on those callings, sooner or later the balance tips and suddenly we are living the life we have dreamt of.  It isn’t just a dream, we can make it a reality.

The truth is that we all have a finite amount of time and none of us knows how long that is. I know it is also true that we can choose again and again as many times as we need to until we figure “it” out. I also know is that I don’t want to look back and regret missing out on things that I had the choice to partake in but didn’t allow myself to because I was listening to someone else’s guilt about what I should have been doing in that moment.  I choose my time now and suddenly there is all the time in the world.  I think we need to start reinforcing the idea that our dreams are not the same—and they aren’t meant to be.  The things we receive are meant for us and we don’t have to waste time earning it or proving our worth to pursue it because it’s already there for us.  Don’t waste any more time working on the things other people tell us we are supposed to.  Develop the ability to hear that inner voice and shift the focus on something we feel is worth going after. Our time is our greatest asset and no one can tell you how to use it.