The Countdown Clock
If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future look into your present actions. Chinese proverb.
Have you found lately that your spirit has been getting ragged around the edges? That the excitement you used to feel about life isn’t what it used to be? Are you just going through the motions?
If you are short on passion, might it just be because you have long ago met and surpassed your goals and objectives? That you have stopped growing?
For many, growing is about advancing, continually moving ahead. They think growth leads to rewards like money, travel, applause and all the good things that make life more fulfilling, interesting and fun.
They measure their success by what they have, their possessions, their status in society, their relationships and their accomplishments. That’s as far it goes.
For some, though, the trouble is that you can have all of the above and still not be happy. Strangely enough, getting what you want can make you feel good, but it can also be a trap.
Setting up and meeting all your goals and objectives can actually inhibit your growth. How can that happen, you ask?
Paradoxically, it can happen unconsciously, when you weren’t looking, when the actual act of achieving your goals begins to over shadow the reasons you set them in the first place. Think about that. Sound familiar?
Growing is in our DNA. We are hard wired to be curious and always hungry for more. It is the way humans are. At least, some, like you, are.
But it isn’t just about your goals and aspirations that count. It is the action of striving to reach them that lies at the heart of the growing process. This is where the excitement lies.
Having a goal or an aspiration or a purpose is what makes you jump out of bed in the morning. Without them, the day is long.
So, where am I going with this, you ask? It is this:
Of all our possessions, good health and time are the most precious.
You job or your business hasn’t changed. You have. And so have your dreams.
So dream a new one. A bigger one. Resolve to start growing, to get excited again. The way you used to.
Time waits for no one. Nor will all the new opportunities that are out there, waiting for you, if only you will look.
Start up that dream. The one you know you would like to do. Time is flying. Make the best use of it. Take risks, again. Allow yourself to be vulnerable. Add in a little humility. These are strengths, not weaknesses.
Time isn’t waiting. Start up a count down clock… now… and get running.