Nothing changes if nothing changes.
Right?
I know I go back to Newton when I think about how he said an item in motion remains in motion and an item at rest, remains at rest, unless altered by an outside source. While I know that I paraphrase, only slightly, I think about life and the way things are.
Are we an item? Perhaps.
Are we in motion or at rest?
I suppose this depends.
Perhaps this is all relative. But either way, people move, and we go and perhaps we stall or we wait. Maybe we delay or we procrastinate a little too much, or we wait too long and, somehow, our life becomes altered by an outside source.
The window of opportunity closes and all that’s left are some scribbled notes about a dream that never had the right to launch.
Maybe circumstances changed. Maybe the world moved and our life as we know it started to tilt, or become off-kilter. Although we assumed that life would always be this way, or the way we hoped or expected, we awaken to the idea that we were only an item at rest.
We missed our shot and life altered our journey which is why people often split apart or move away in different directions. This happens in business. This happens personally and intimately.
This happens all the time.
I understand that we are always in motion, at least technically. The world is never still and time is always ticking.
I understand that time is always moving and that the saying “timing is everything,” has its points.
But I also know that there is another saying. “He who hesitates, is lost.”
And I have lost more times than I can count.
I have been a fight fan for most of my life. I have watched some of the boxing greats from my youth and I still enjoy a good bout when I see one.
However, there is something that comes to mind which is a line that I have heard coaches tell their fighters. “Never leave anything up to the judges.”
This means you have to leave it all in the ring and that in order to win, you have to win decisively.
You can’t hope to be ahead on points because the judges might have you behind on the scorecard—and then what?
So, leave nothing up to the judges.
Leave nothing unsaid.
Leave no stone unturned and no punch without being thrown.
Do not be an item at rest, unless the rest serves you well and while you are in motion, be in motion with a purpose.
Do something.
Do anything.
Do what you have to do but be advised, while there are times when we should move forward, and times when we should pause, or even withdraw, there are times when we have to realize that it’s now or never.
Now or never, and now that we realize this, we understand that we will never have another moment like this one. We will never get another chance at today, or this morning, and once this moment is gone, then it is gone and there is no coming back.
Time hits and then it disappears.
This moment will be gone and disappear into less-than vapor, instantly.
Do you realize this?
I was thinking about the very first life coaching course that I took. I was thinking about a lesson when people run towards something as opposed to when people run away from something.
I think about the flight we take when we are afraid and running away from something.
I think about how we lose sight of what’s ahead of us, which is our dreams and our “wants” and “needs.”
Then I think about the difference when we run towards something, like a goal, or an intention, and how we can at least face forward. If we need to adjust, we can adjust, or if we need to change our pace, we can do that as well.
But more importantly, we have a goal in mind. Hence, we are not willing to settle nor can we be satisfied with any port in the storm.
And yes, life can be stormy.
The seas can be rough. Times can be hard, and the fights can be long.
But nothing lasts forever.
Everything is temporary, and this moment right now, this is when we can choose to make a run for it and head towards that dream of ours.
See?
I cannot allow myself to run aimlessly or to be stuck in any port in the storm. I cannot allow myself to settle for less, at least not now.
And getting back to being a fight fan, yes, I understand that there is no way that I want to leave my dreams up to the judges.
I stand to lose too much.
So, if I am going to achieve my dreams, I have to achieve them decisively.
I understand that there are external circumstances that are beyond my control. And yes, like a prize fighter, there is the risk that I can be knocked out, cold, and in the first round.
But I can’t give up.
I can’t let go.
My fights might change and so will my dreams.
And me?
I know that I will evolve, no matter what.
I understand that there will always be an opposition and external circumstances and yes, I understand that I have to fight for what I want—I can’t be an item at rest and just ‘hope” that someone gives me my way, whenever the time comes.
No.
I have to make the time.
I have to make the market.
I have to put myself out there, each and every day, otherwise, I will just be an item at rest, and I will remain at rest, until altered by an external source.
Another window will close and I will be still, at rest, and wondering why none of my dreams have ever come true.
This is life.
This is true.
And so, dare I say it but more than say it, I have to do this for it to be done . . .
It’s time to move on.
I have been moved.
I have been altered by an external source.
And that’s fine.
My eyes are open
and I am ready to fight back
and enter the ring . . .
Again
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