Every December 31st, men and women alike pull out their memo pads, and write down this year’s resolution. Before I even ask what your resolution for this past year was, let me guess (C’mon, it’ll be fun)… You wanted to lose weight? No no, you wanted to quit smoking! .
Don’t get me wrong; change is a good thing! But why did you need a designated annual date to finally do this? Why did you wait? If you want to better yourself as a human being, why not do it right away? I asked myself this question quite often… Until I realized the answer.
As a human race, we have become dependent on our favorite day of the week: “Someday”. We have hope. Hope that things will get better. What’s so terrible about that? Well, nothing… And everything.
Hope is an attitude not a strategy. (Always remember that)
There are many people who waited and waited for someday and sadly, that someday never came. We always wait for it like it is promised. Someday is just a false hope that let people believe they have a lot of time. With that, we became vicious in taking people and things for granted. Someday makes us live our lives meaninglessly. We focus our energy to things that won’t matter after you’re dead.
In our fast-paced life, in which things change around us so often, certainty is a crucial need.The hierarchy of needs, presents certainty (or safety) as a basic need, just one level above physical survival. We do many things to gain certainty in our lives. We go to the same workplace, we eat the same food and we establish routines to be able to predict what will happen the next day, week or month. We like to listen to familiar songs and hang out with the same people.
We hang on to things that seem to give us this stability and ability to predict the future. So much so that we forget that the world doesn’t stand still long enough for us to play “fortune telling”. This scares us, because we do not know what is going to happen.
Here’s the question,
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If you are hungry and thirsty, do you wait for someday and somebody to get you food and water? No. You decide you want it now and fetch yourself some food and water to satisfy your hunger and thirst. It is just the same thing in doing what you love. You don’t need somebody to do it and you definitely don’t need to wait for someday to come for you to do the things that you really crave in life.
Question, Again!😝
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How do you trap a big monkey in a small cage the size of a banana? Easy! You place a banana inside the cage and leave an opening large enough for the monkey’s hand, but not for the banana. As soon as the monkey grabs the banana, it’s trapped. The monkey can set itself free if it lets go of the banana, but it won’t! By not giving up what it has in its hand, it locks itself just outside the tiny cage.
PEOPLE are much the same – we hold many “bananas” that keep us trapped in little “cages” – because we just won’t let go.
Negative beliefs and energy are the caged bananas that keep us humans trapped. The ones that aren’t good for us, but we hang on to because they’ve become part of our identity, of who we are. You see, “Monkey” does not equal “Banana”, but the monkey cannot perceive itself separately from the banana.
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Letting go of limiting beliefs is one of the most challenging things in the process of change. There are many bananas out there, far better and tastier. If you find one that is not good for you, notice the cage, slowly let go and slide your hand out to freedom.
Change your mindset to doing it now instead of waiting for someday to come.
what are you*we waiting for?.
Take control of your Life Line.
xo,
Till next time
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