One of my favorite quote is, “There are seven days in a week and someday is not one of them.” I don't know about you, but I’ve spent many years of my life living for 'someday'. Someday I’ll make time to work out. Someday I’ll start my business. Someday I will have the time and money to travel. Someday I won’t have to work such long hours. Someday things will slow down.
Many of my hard days were spent rationalizing my current situation with the hope of someday. In my mind, I knew that someday was an excuse. Behind the excuse was fear, self-doubt and an inner voice that convinced me I would never reach those dreams and I certainly didn’t deserve them. I used someday to label the dreams I wasn’t committed to pursuing.
Instead, I settled into a predictable life. I hoped that someday would just magically come and bring with it all that I had postponed because I clearly wasn’t committed to putting in the work it would take to get there. I gave the best of myself to my job and my family got whatever was left over - which usually wasn’t much.
I don’t know when exactly things shifted for me, but there was a shift. Maybe it was the time I spent around entrepreneurs who had chosen a different lifestyle with freedom, flexibility and joy. Maybe it was after getting bit by the travel bug and trying to imagine how I squeeze more into my life. Or maybe it was having my second child at the age of 39 and not wanting to miss a single milestone like all those I had missed with my first child.
I know is that I decided I didn’t want to wait until I was retired to start living my life. I didn’t even want to wait for the weekend! I wanted to take advantage of every single day and squeeze in as many memories as possible.
What if now is all there ever is?
Think about how different your life might be if you stopped putting things off until someday. If you experienced joy today and every day, instead of hoping to experience it in the distant future. There is a saying, “Hope is not a strategy.” Living a full life requires intention and action. It requires you to utilize the time and talents you have today and use them to create your ideal tomorrow.
Think about where you would be if you started pursuing your dream last week? Now think about where you would be if you had started last month? Where would you be if you started last year? Now is all we have and tomorrow is never guaranteed. Today can be your someday. You just have to decide that you’re committed to putting in the work.
- Crystalynn
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