A little bit of reality after celebrating who we are:  We have to learn when we need to stop the pep talk and simply do the work.  I want to echo what we talked about over the last few days how this is simply about shifting focus.  Instead of spending time doing the things we hate, we need to do what we love/what we want to do.  It can be really scary taking this step because in the beginning we often don’t have a way to transition what supported us to what we love doing and getting the same security we have.  We need to be comfortable going without for a time—going without the extras we thought we needed, going without the habits we adopted that got us to our current position.  Using our energy to create the life we love needs to be nurtured as much as the energy we spent living how we currently do, and that energy needs time and care to grow before it can sustain us.  Once we establish it, it will maintain itself, but we have to allow that to develop so that means taking the time to learn to operate in new ways.

For example, I spent a lot of my life planning, learning, reading, writing out what I wanted to do—but then I didn’t do anything about it.  I had pages and pages, books in fact, about things/dreams I had but I never took action on it.  We don’t get where we want to go by wishing it into reality. We have to plan and align with it to get there.  Yes, having imagination and goals is a wonderful thing but they remain as dreams on a page if we don’t do what it takes to make it happen.  With that being said, I realized I wasn’t taking the time to do what I wanted to do.  There were all of these obligations I thought I had and I felt the world would end if I didn’t do that— and then I went to the other extreme and focused so much on not getting stuck doing things I didn’t want to do that I ended up doing nothing.  I committed to nothing because everything felt like someone else’s goal.  When we do nothing, we get nowhere.  The answer is simple: we need to spend time doing what we want to be doing instead of what we don’t want to and we learn how to make the new way a reality.  Don’t allow ourselves to stagnate where we are by doing the same thing every day—change it up and grow by doing something different.