If not you, who? If not now, when?
I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday about my recent decision to quit my office job working as a web developer to focus more on my passion in the personal development field, and he remarked that it must have been hard for me to quit given the current economic conditions. I told my friend that while it did take a lot of courage to break out of my comfort zone and start following a more inspired path, it had to be done and it had to be done now. The true reality of the situation is that I am the only one that can change my life and I give no power to anything outside of myself, like the economy, to dictate my life.
If not you, who?
I told my friend that if I let external circumstances dictate my life, then the time would never be right to follow my passions. If I don’t start to stand up for myself now, then when will it ever be right? If I don’t start really sharing the amazing things I have learned in health, wealth creation, relationships, etc., then who would!?
You are the only one who can truly change your life, and furthermore you are the only one who can do what you have to do in your own unique and special way.
You have to start your life now, because no one else can do it for you. No one else can shine just like you can shine; no one else has had all the unique experiences and learning that you have had and no one else has the passions that you have. If you don’t do what you are passionate about, what you absolutely love, then who will? What you have to give the world is so unique and special and if you don’t start giving that, then who will? Who can? Only you have the talents and passions that you have, and only you can give those to the world.
If not now, when?
In the same vain, if you don’t start following your passion now, then when will you? The only time that things actually happen is NOW! Now is the moment of power, but the mind will always come up with reasons why it can’t be done now. By having the mindset that you will start following your passion at some point in the future, that passion will never be followed because the future is never now. Will you do it tomorrow, or next week, or next month or next year? Eventually tomorrow becomes today, next week this week, next year this year, and at some point, you have to start following your passion now! In fact, now is the only time it can happen. So let it happen now! It must be done now, because now is the only time in which it can be done!
There is much less stopping people from doing what they want to do now than they typically believe. Many people believe that all of the right circumstances have to fall into place before they can start doing what they really want to do. Many people think that they must have a certain amount of money in the bank, or be in just the right relationship, or live in just the right place and drive just the right car before they can do what they really want. The reality of the situation is that it’s never going to be a perfect time to start following your passions because the mind can always think up new reasons why it can’t be done right now.
You must understand that NOW is the only time during which you could ever do whatever you want to do. It is actually quite a difficult concept to wrap your head around if you think about it… Nothing, I repeat, nothing ever happens at any time other than the present, and “the future” really only exists as a moment of NOW when it finally does come along. That is to say: THIS very moment is the only REAL moment that ACTUALLY exists, so deciding that you will do something “in the future” is like affirming to yourself that your goal or your plan or your idea genuinely does not even exist!
So go ahead – conjure it into existence, right here and right now. Take action right now.
Of course you will always be able to think of reasons why you can’t do something now, but realize that if you don’t do it now, you are very politely giving all of your power away to forces outside of yourself. Now is truly the moment of power – all you have is now and if it doesn’t happen now, then when?
In sum, you are the master of your life. As comfortable as it is to give our power away to external circumstances outside of ourselves, the simple truth is that you are the only one who is stopping you. The only way you can achieve what you want is to realize that no one else can do it for you. It is just as easy to convince yourself that now is a perfect time to do something as it is to convince yourself that now is a terrible time to do it.
Think about it – it takes a lot of effort to spin all of the reasons to put something off through your mind. To really stop yourself from following your dreams, you have probably come up with thousands of reasons to stop yourself, such as the risks involved, the challenges you might face, the timing… Well imagine if you put all of that effort into thinking about only the potential positives that could come out of making that kind of change. Seriously, consider for a moment that all of the negative “what ifs” are literally JUST AS LIKELY to occur as all of the potential positive “what ifs.”
You simply cannot afford to wait to start following your passions.
May you realize that you are the only one that can make your reality real. May you realize that it can only happen now. May you start now.
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