“No matter what, you are ready.  It might not seem like the right time, but it never will be.  If you have thought about creating, starting, trying, or launching—do it! You will learn in the simple act of just starting” unknown—uncredited on my calendar.  This was followed by a reel on source junkie that said “It’s already yours.”  Funny how the universe aligns to remind us of what we are meant to do.  We just need to remember who we are and take the chance to let the greatest version of ourselves free.  That’s all the world is waiting for.  We so often don’t regret the chances we take, we regret the chances we don’t take.  What we want is within reach as long as we allow it to be and follow through on the details to get there.  I’ve said it a million times before that we know what we need to do—truly.  We feel it in our guts and we spend more time convincing ourselves not to do it because we are afraid of something.  Afraid of what we will lose, that we will get in trouble, that people will think something/a certain way about us. 

We need to start looking at what we will gain if we take the chance and what we will lose if we DON’T.  Start looking at the good we can unlock by trying something different—especially if it aligns with who we are—understand that through honest expression we can’t be wrong. And people will think something anyway—no matter what we do they will have an opinion one way or another.  Like I said yesterday, we will always be the villain in someone’s story and we could spend a lifetime trying to shape other people’s perceptions of us or we can simply live our lives as we are meant to.  I’m not saying it’s easy to let go of what we know or that accepting the consequences of our actions isn’t scary or even that it doesn’t hurt to find out what people really think.  All of that is true.  But it’s also true that none of it matters.  We are responsible for our lives and our choices and we can’t let our best guesses of what people think determine our actions.  There is no other time beyond right now. 

We could spend an entire life doing what we are told, all the while knowing there is something else we are supposed to do, knowing that there is something greater we are meant to fulfill.  The energy we spend convincing ourselves to do otherwise is astounding compared to what it would take to actually follow through on what we wanted to do or the energy that would be created from following the momentum of such a dream.  The greatest asset and detriment to our success in this world is our use of the word “no.”  It’s an asset in setting boundaries—saying no to what doesn’t work for us allows us to say yes to what does; and it’s a detriment when we say no to what we know we need to do in favor of anything else.  Life throws us enough things that we can’t say no to—loss/natural disasters, death (our own included), those curveballs we couldn’t plan for.  So for all of those events we have no control over, why wouldn’t we say yes to what we do have a say in?  Why wouldn’t we go for it?  There will never be any other time than now.  Do it.