How often do you feel like you're "busy"? Do you ever feel like you're busy on a hamster wheel going nowhere? Do you do the same thing, day in and day out, wondering how to get off the wheel?
A lot of us feel like this at some point in our lives. One way we can get off the wheel, and experience progress is by having a vision of what we want to create in our lives. Then, ask ourselves, "What is the first next step I need to do that will get me closer to my vision?". This puts us in action and makes us accountable to ourselves. To gain further accountability, tell someone else about your next step or even your bigger vision. Doing this makes us progress toward a place different from where we currently are. By being in action, we build upon our experiences of life and experience purpose when intentionally focused on a vision.
Some of us want the experience of a big house, expensive car, or big bank account. Some of us want the experience of travel, leisurely living, and going where the wind takes us. Many of us have these dreams and desires and no vision or steps to get there. Thinking that it will just happen, and so we keep going on and on, running and running in our busy hamster wheel lives, going nowhere fast.
This leaves our dreams unfulfilled with plans not drafted. Someday someday, someday, it will happen.
The reality is that it will never happen for those of us unwilling to take action. Unwilling to face the fear(s) holding us back or to step out of comfort. If we want something we never had, we must step out of our comfort zones and do things we've never done. Often, this also involves being someone we haven't yet been, which also feels uncomfortable at first. Yet, this is the nature of growth and expansion. This is the opposite of being on the hamster wheel of going nowhere fast.
Some of the thinking that stops us, especially when a big change or risk is involved, is thinking about what could go "wrong." Instead of thinking about what could go wrong, focus on what could go right. What if everything works out? Or, if the fear is so strong, see it through. What if it doesn't work, then what? Then what? And, then what? When played out, most fears end up an obvious illusion of the mind caging us from expanding outside our comfort zone.
We live, and we die; what we do in between is up to us. So what can you do (or are doing) to take action toward your vision and off the wheel?
What can you do that is different and will lead you to experience something new?
Life is what we make of it, and the joy of life comes from experiences through action and expansion.
If you find yourself stuck, ask yourself, "What obstacles or excuses keep me from changing my circumstances?"
If you are enjoying your life, I offer you the opportunity to practice gratitude.
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