I will stop waiting
Daily Keys to Success
These daily excerpts from Randy Kay's book Daily Keys to Success will show you how to grow your potential while expanding your personal success to lead a life of significance. You will benefit from 365 topics with ideas, tools, and tactics for living life fully.
If you could travel back in time to this present time, what would you do differently? Judy and Verne Teyler asked themselves that question while Verne worked as a top executive at E.F. Hutton. Inspired by their passion for children, they acquired a 100-acre ranch in Castro Valley, California. They became foster parents, determined to teach, house, and find placements for abandoned and abused children. Almost thirty years later, over one thousand children have found nurturing homes through their Hosanna Homes ministry. This amazing couple did not wait for the opportunity to follow their passion. Like many who have successfully redefined their lives, they got real with themselves.
Author Po Bronson writes about defining the “New Era,” wherein those who thrive do so because they focus on the question of who they really are, instantly connecting that to work they truly love. In his article “Choosing What To Do With Your Life,” Bronson recounts the story of a catfish farmer who used to be an investment broker, an academic-turned-chef, and a Harvard MBA who found his calling as a police officer. These examples of people who stopped waiting and started living out what they truly love give testimony to the fact that all of us can do the same.
The average person spends from forty to sixty minutes a day waiting, usually for fairly unimportant things—such as another person to show-up, or a ride to arrive. But the average person also regrets waiting to do what is most important for themselves—to live a life true to themselves.
Over time, those who endlessly wait for tomorrows waste their todays—until they casually accept their situation as inevitable. They become resigned to what seems normal or inevitable. Just as fresh food left too long will rot, so too our dreams will spoil over time if not applied as reality, and after awhile we will be left wondering, if I could do it over again, what would I do differently? Once you’ve got the answer, the response must be to do it!
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ~ Lao Tzu
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.” ~ Native American saying