How
far would you be now?
Do you remember when you were a kid
and someone told you to go do something and you got half way to your
destination and they called you back and asked you; I wonder how far you would
be now if you didn’t turn around? Do you notice how we often do the same thing
to ourselves by not doing what we set out to do originally? We usually have an idea of where we want to
go, or where we would like to be at certain stages of our life. Things in life happen that “call us back” and
ask us where we would be now if we continued on. I remembered when I turned 41 and woke up
that morning and realized my house would have been paid for if I had got a 15
year mortgage! But we cannot stay in
those places mentally because we will never get to a destination worth going to
if we live in regret. I heard one time that if we are depressed we are living
in the past, and if we are anxious we are living in the future. When we do either one of these we sacrifice
the life we have now and it drains our energy for the future. How about I issue us a challenge this
Memorial day? A lot of our fellow
Americans gave it all so we could go where we planned without regret and help
our country and glorify God with the blessings He gave us to subdue the
earth. Determine what you want to do,
weather it is lose weight, get out
of debt, get in shape, run a marathon or start a new career or business. If you stay in the thinking about it or the
planning mode without executing you will ask years from now where would I be if
I followed through with that idea? If
you are afraid of failure embrace it, the bigger you fail it usually means the
bigger the payoff will be. I would rather
fail at an endeavor than to never try and wonder where I would be if I had
tried. I am glad our veterans didn’t quit because there is no telling where or
who we would be now. Let’s not listen to that voice that calls us back because
it is just going to ask; how far would you be now?
Tim West
Go West Coaching 5-27-13
