Make your wave, then climb onboard.
You probably have a long list of things you want to accomplish in your life.
That said, then what are you waiting for?
Maybe you’re thinking, “Well, I’ve got to wait until the kids finish school…” Or, perhaps you’re younger and you’re waiting to meet your soul mate. Or, you’re older and waiting for retirement.
Whatever the wave is for you, the dreams that you have never followed cannot wait forever to be attained.
The fact that we have limited lifetimes is almost viewed as a taboo subject. But the simple truth is that our time is quite limited. Often we make other people’s priorities our priorities and time floats away on a sea of good intention.
That is not to suggest that we should or we need to turn our back away from obligations that we have made. Shared lives with a loving partner, caring for an elderly parent, the joy of seeing our children grow and mature from helpless infants to accomplished adults; are all life challenging and life fulfilling experiences.
Chasing a wave you wish to catch does not need to come at the exclusion of all these other things, in the best of circumstances it will come in addition to them.
Begin by considering the wave that has most caught your attention. Is it the travels you have never done, the musical instrument that you have never played, the poetry you have not written, or the fanciful adventure you have not taken?
Almost assuredly it is something.
Without dissolving all those other ties in your life that are justifiably important to you, how can you throw yourself into that wave and keep the other parts of your life? The answer begins, as most things do, with a plan.
What steps can you take this month, this week, or this day toward catching that wave?
Signing up for a class? Setting up a special budget so that you can start putting aside the needed funds for those long dreamed of travels? Networking with friends, or groups online with whom you share a particular interest? Whatever your goal, whatever that wave, you’ll only move closer to catching it by setting out the steps that will take you there.
Excuses are without end when you need to explain to anyone, including yourself why there has been a delay. Simply resolve to put those excuses away and start building your plan today.
Personal waves are opportunities. They rise up because a force of will acts upon them like the moon acts upon the tides that rush toward the shore. Personal goals never arise without the pull of our intention. Rather they lay there lost beneath a glass-like surface of deep water, unknown to others and often unknown to ourselves.
Our desires, if and when willed into existence, create a force of their own and may well move us in unexpected directions. Jump on board. Ride on top. The wave that you catch will always be greater than the wave you imagined.
And in those times when that one wave did not bring you the fulfillment you were seeking, create another wave. The force of your will can pull the tides of your life if you allow that force within to come forward.
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