As a little girl I grew up under the false belief that I just had to wish my dreams into being. The rude awakening of life taught me that one needed to take action to get to one’s desires. Growing up, however, I noticed that many of us were afraid to step out into the world and make things happen. We need to venture out, beyond our comfort zone.
Of course, there are not too many courses teaching how to manifest what you want in life, short of the common false belief that we need to work hard to get to what we want. No one ever explained to me the need to “work smart” to manifest my desires. And what is “working smart,” you might ask? I would venture to say that it is essentially to align your thoughts (vision) and emotions (passion) and step up to make it happen concretely, beyond your dreams. I have learned over the years that working smart was actually to stop struggling. Life is not a struggle! You may fail and fail again at reaching your goals, but who says it is a struggle? Watching a baby who starts to walk, you get the picture: it is an adventure!
Some of us walk early, others late: does it matter? Indeed, many of us are afraid to step out into the world and make things happen, and so we hang back, dreaming and waiting and watching, wondering. There are times in life when pondering is the right thing to do, and inaction is a form of action. In leading our lives, contributing to the world around us, what we choose to do can be just as important as what we choose not to do. Not every cause or action is appropriate for everyone at all time. So when is it time?
It is time to lead the way when a situation speaks to you (you actually “know”) and fires you up (you feel it..), and when there is alignment between the thought and the emotion (i.e. when they are both going in the same direction). That is when you need to step up to the plate. When you feel the alignment, it is actually hard to resist the impulse (do you know what I mean? But the determining factor, in the end, is the courage to venture beyond your comfort zone.