By Alan Forrest Smith
I know this guy.
He could be incredible, he isn’t.
He could do more, he doesn’t.
He could create and enjoy, he won’t.
Here’s an actual scenario I see this guy in.
When he wakes around 10am, he will eat his food and watch some TV
By 11am he has become ready to bathe.
By 12pm he is ready to eat again.
By 1am he is preparing for his afternoon nap.
He wakes, he eats and then he sleeps.
He uses one sentence repeatedly and it is this…
"when will this all change?"
When he says this, he means his life.
This man has been saying the same thing for the past 25 years that I know of.
When he says that sentence … he is sentencing himself to endless waiting and unhappiness. Right?
Hmmm, so when he says change what is it he means? He means when will my life change or when will my life circumstance change or when will my daily routine change?
Now I don’t know about you but when I see that and hear that it gets me thinking.
Thinking because we live in a world when people say things like…
"it’ll change"
"what goes round, comes around"
"you have to accept your lot in life"
And lots more phrases just like that.
And that in itself is intriguing because it reveals how we prepared to be almost passively controlled into waiting for something to happen.
There is of course a solution, there always is and I will share what I think in a second.
Think about it.
How many times in a day, a week or a month are you waiting for something to happen?
Here’s an example.
I can’t wait for the weather to get warmer and brighter. So… continue reading