Some of you that have been participating in the 1%-A-Day program so far have probably been noticing some positive changes in your life already. I laugh often when I hear people talking about change and how they ‘don’t feel comfortable’ about change. Change is all around us and within us. Change is as inevitable as death! It is another one of Life’s certainties: change is going to happen whether you like it or not.
Just take yourself for an example. No matter what age you are right now, you are different, almost completely different, to the way you were when you were born, and that happened by changes. You are constant action as a biological-spiritual being. Why then do many people have a challenge when it comes to actually being the driver of that change?
It is my belief that because most people do NOT live in the present moment they allow fear to immobilize them. Elsewhere in this blog I have the following quotation, and it’s part of my life philosophy:
“Fear lives in the future. Regret lives in the past. Live in the present, for that is what it is, a wonderful gift of a never-ending now.”
Try to hold on to fear or regret whilst staying in the present moment. It’s impossible! I’m sure you’ve been invited by a neighbor or friend to look at they vacation photos, was it ever as enjoyable looking at the pictures as it was when you actually went on your own vacation? Probably not. But this is how most people live their lives. Have you talked about a vacation you were planning to go on so much that when you finally went and experienced it, it wasn’t as good as you thought it would be? Again, this is how many live their lives when you constantly strive to be in the future.
A very simple solution: live right now… be in this moment… and get into action. Don’t overthink something, if it feels like the right thing to do based on what you know right now, and it won’t hurt or harm anybody else, then JUST DO IT!
Action curses fear, and there is no bigger dream killer than procrastination. Change will happen in your life whether you actively make it happen in the direction you want or not. If you were paying a taxi driver to take you somewhere, you’d want them to go in the right direction, right? Why then let people without your best interests at heart lead, mold, and manipulate your life in the wrong direction?
Practice, as you continue to participate in this easy program, making more action decisions. You will be very surprised at what you experience…
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