Cristina Zenato Instagram – Change is something we often consider and dream about. We want to make a change, starting something new, trying something different. We want to leave what we know for the dream that has been floating in our minds. We may have been thinking about leaving a more regular life for something extraordinary.
Change comes into our minds often and for a while; we consider it, debate, and often back down after looking into options or toying with a few ideas.
There is an instinct to love comfort and certainty; we wait for the “right” time to do things.
Mostly, we hope that will be when it’s convenient, comfortable, and easy to have a clear vision of what we want to do and a perfectly laid out path for us to follow.
The more we wait for this “right,” the further away our dreams feel.
So we come up with a series of justifications; we don’t feel ready or confident, we don’t have the necessary amount of time, we first have to wait for others to complete their journey so we can start ours (read kids, partner, parents, or career)
I have learned that there are no guarantees in life, no matter how much we plan and wait; but I know for a fact, or as I say to my students, “everything I know is not by coincidence” that if we wait until the life we have is perfectly aligned to build the life we want, it will never happen.
Through my life, career, and those I met along the way, I realized that those who appear successful and have what they want didn’t wait; they just got started. I launched on my first life change in one week, and that included moving 6000 miles away from home and loved ones.
And along the way, we fail, try, stumble, fall, and fail again, only to try once more. We feel the same emotions others feel, from sometimes a level of inadequacy to a lack of preparation. Still, instead of using them as an excuse to back down, we use them as a motivator to improve where needed and up our skills to continue.
And when we sit there and think that we are not seeing what we hoped for in the time frame we planned, I always use these two sentences to help:
“We have to be beginners before we can be anything else,” and
“A small action is better than no big action.”
Image @kewinlorenzen | Posted on 13/Feb/2024 21:28:58
