Life is about choices. No getting around that. At any given moment you are faced with choices about your attitude, behavior, and actions, and that is only your inner world. There is still a whole world going on around you with which you must interact. It is the choices that you make that shape your life. They move you forward, send you backward, or keep you stuck where you are.
When faced with a choice you need to gather information….what you think and know about it. You need to tune into how it feels. You make the best choice, for you, from there. Then comes even more choices. One is, you can decide your best choice, then take action. Another is, you can decide what would be the best choice, and still choose not to do it (at least this opens you up for choices). And yet another is, you can think you know the best choice, decide to do it, but never action. Not taking action after making a decision to take action keeps you in the space of wanting change, but not allowing it happen. This, to me, is by far the worst choice.
To know, think and want….to decide….to make the choice to do something……and still not take action is the energy of being stuck. No action is a choice too. It is a choice to remain in limbo, not moving forward. It is choosing to not go after what you want. It is procrastination at it’s finest. Rarely is procrastinating looked at as its own choice.
When you find yourself in this space (and we all do it from time to time) it is a great opportunity to look at why. What is the resistance? What is the fear? Fear of change? The world around you is impermant, but most resist that notion. Fear it will be hard? Fear it is the wrong choice, after all? Fear others won’t like it? Once you are ready to look at the fears….and it can seem like a bottomless pit….take a flashlight, shine some light in there…..you will find once identified dealing with them is much easier. They will begin to diminish the minute they are “seen.” Identifying your fear is the first step in diminishing its hold on you. The choices that will move you toward your dreams will be waiting.