I’m always amazed at how topics for my daily blog find me. I’m in Ibiza right now for our first Love & Relationship Retreat. I went from my hotel room down to the restaurant to write. I had a topic in mind. And then I started talking to my waiter, Edgar. And I could feel that he had something he wanted to get off his chest. So we started talking and all of a sudden he told me he’d been feeling down recently. He had no idea that I am in the field of personal development. So I just listened. We started talking about his options and he said something that was genius. I don’t know is Edgar even knew how genius is was. He said, “You know most people are waiting for life to happen to them, but they don’t realize that it’s life that’s happening right now.” BANG – mind blown. Edgar and I chatted for another 30 minutes, but I couldn’t stop thinking about what he had said to me. I thought back to all the times that I had waited for life to happen for me. I was waiting for a sign from God or Life or The Uni-verse. And then one day I realized that what I was waiting for is what was doing the waiting. I thought that I needed some permission from life or some authority figure to start living my life. We don’t want to get to a place where we had wished we hadn’t waited. Edgar was 23, but wise for his age. And traveled. He moved from Spain to London and within three months taught himself English and became a manager at a hotel. Impressive stuff for someone who never went to school to learn English. Here’s a guy that just took action, not waiting for life. And let’s think about this.. what has waiting cost us? What has waiting for a sign actually cost us in terms of wasted time, lost opportunity and perhaps months, years of decades of wondering “What would have happened if I had tried?” This is the worst kind of outcome I can imagine – to life a life full of regret. My deep wish for you, since you are reading this blog at this moment, is to not live life with regret, but instead full of fears faced. Life is scary. Taking risks is scary. Bad things have happened in the past that we don’t want to re-live. And yet, it’s coming to terms with these things that makes us come fully alive. There is a very fine line between excitement and anxiety. The only difference being anxiety has a negative perception of the future outcome and excitement has a positive anticipation for the future outcome. So what if it were true that what you are waiting for is to realize that part of yourself that is doing the waiting? What if you didn’t need approval or the blessing of someone or something outside yourself? If that were true, what would you being – right now? In the comments on the below, let me know. Lots of LOVE from Ibiza, Mastin P.S. Take what resonates and leave the rest. Click the link to the blog for more discussion about taking action and not waiting for life! thedailylove/are-you-waiting-for-life-to-happen-to-you/
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:09:11 +0000
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