Stop Waiting and Start Acting

I personally hate waiting… Waiting puts me into vulnerable
situation. When I am waiting for something it feels like I do
accept the fact that the thing won’t happen until a certain
period of time is passed. It makes me feel weak. It makes me feel
as if things depend on anything else but me…


From the very young age we are taught to wait… We had to wait for
the dinner so after that only we could eat the desert.


We had to wait until we grew up… Because there are so many things
I could do only then.


That was why I impatiently wanted to grow up fast when I was a
child. The gown up life seemed so attractive back then.


And once we grow up we end up waiting on a bigger scale. We keep
postponing things for later. We postpone building our dreams,
following our passion, getting rid of certain things that make
our life miserable… we wait for the right time to start doing
things that we’d like to do.


How many times have you heard the phrases like “As soon
as the kids grow up…”, “When I have more
time…” , “When I find a well-paid job…”
, “As soon as we pay the mortgage…”.


The sad things is that very often we and that “right time” never
meet up. Just like the horizon… we keep walking towards it but
the distance between us seems to stay the same.


The reality proves that you will never have the ideal conditions.
There will never be the perfect moment. Life will continue
getting on the way and things will keep happening. There will
always be new things coming between you and your plans. Always!


How can you be so sure about the future? How can you take the
risk of putting off the things that are important to you? What if
that right moment never arrives? What if something happens
in-between?


Why do we think that time is not precious? Why do we often start
living only after a major paradigm shift? Do we have to survive
an accident or get a cancer or lose a close one in order to
understand that there is no sense to lose time waiting?


You may say that you’ve got too many obligations and
time-consuming responsibilities. And I won’t argue back. Not
because I know you - most probably I don’t. I won’t argue back
because we all do have those obligations and responsibilities.


Do you think that all the successful people were completely free,
with no family, no money issues, no problems at all? Well, I have
to disappoint you there.


Most of the successful people were exactly in your shoes before.
They too had things to deal with, they too did not have the ideal
time to take action… but the difference is - they did not wait.
They did not sit and wait for the perfect moment. They did not
wait until they have time - they made time for the things which
were important to them.


When I meet new people and they find out I am a writer many of
them tell “I want to write a book too one day”. One day? Which
day? You think you will ever get completely free 6 months to sit
alone in a forest hut and write that book? You think you will
wake up from a knock on the door and when you open it you’ll see
that “one day” on your doorway saying“ I’ve come you can start
now” ? Something tells me that might not really happen…


What if instead of waiting for that one day you start now? Sooner
you start bigger the chances that you’ll actually make it happen.


But if you keep sticking to that dangerous future tense you will
risk staying where you are now.


Do you really want to let your entire life become a waiting room?
No?


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