Did you know that I lost my marbles for a whole six months a few years ago?
I lost my sharpness, my intelligence, my motivation, and my sense of humor.
How did I do it?
I vegetated. Stagnated. Flopped. Shuffled. Sighed.
Every day I watched at least 8 hours of daytime TV every day.
My brain was shrinking right behind my very eyes. I knew more about what was going on in daytime soaps than what was going on in my life.
I had become one of those bit-part actors without a speaking role who pretend to have a conversation in the background. Except that I wasn’t in a soap opera, I was a nobody in my own life!
Ever felt like that?
Ever spent more energy worry about the people in the Big Brother house instead of concentrating on improving your own life?
One day it hit me. My life was an exact reflection of what I was doing –
NOTHING!
I had ‘caught’ a mild depression because I believed that I hated my life and my job.
The truth was that I hated myself for getting into such a position in the first place.
One day I woke up.
That day was the first day of the rest of my life. I was fed up of gradually losing the potential that I knew I had. Fed up of seeing a ghostly figure in the mirror every morning.
I read, then read some more. How to run your own business. How to focus your mind. How to THINK success.
I went back to work the next week – knowing that within six months I would resign.
Knowing that I was the ONLY person responsible for my future.
I had read many books before…but it took reaching the lowest point in my life to realise that I had to do something with what I read if I wanted to be somebody – somebody of whom my family could be proud.
You can do it, too.
You don’t have to be a TV zombie before you realize that YOU already hold all of the cards. Whatever hand you have been dealt – you’ve got to play them – because you can’t give them back!
To quote an email I received from a lady who is certainly worse off than you – “Every day, I suit up and show up with a smile”.
Don’t waste the opportunity of making something out of the only life you have got – stop being and start DOING.
Don’t wait for a disaster to happen like I did before you realize it.
Life isn't about bank balances, the lastest computer or TV, or even that flash car your neighbor has that will take him four years to pay off.
Life is about being able to wake up in the morning - ANY morning - and not having to wish it away because you don't like what you do during it.
Life is about playing the game on YOUR terms...using the undoubted talents that you DO have.
It's pointless me telling YOU what you should be doing to make more of your life.
YOU and you alone KNOW what you are good at, what you enjoy doing, what you find 'easy' to do without much stress.
Life only becomes difficult when you're having to try too hard to do the things that don't come easy to you.
Of course...things aren't going to change overnight. If you've spent years moving in one direction - you're not going to turn it around overnight.
But...once you find the strength to START...then you're on your way.
If I can look at myself in the mirror and be happy with my life compared to where I was just a couple of years ago - then there is NO reason why YOU can't, too.
And...if you don't believe me...then you'd better before you start!
Posted by vurnumg
