I remember as a kid I always wanted to be Superman. I thought he was the coolest, flying around saving people, having super powers, being able to fly. I even remember several attempts at the latter involving a towel and a displaced mattress.
I am amazed at how many adults I hear comment about becoming someone else. There are the obvious desired changes...when I am thinner...when I find the right job...when I meet the right person...when the kids leave the house...when I have kids...when I retire...etc, etc. I guess it is human nature and carry over from childhood when we were told as kids that we can become anything we want if we just believe. Remember that? I even think that I have heard it a few times in the recent Presidential race. My question...is that really true can we become anything we want if we just believe?
NOPE!
It is so much more than just believing that something is possible to make it happen. Obviously. The problem is I think people lack the one thing required for change...motivation. Things don't happen just because you believe...they happen with hard work and dedicated effort, constant effort. I think that procrastination is the killer of dreams. Too many of us are waiting for the right planets to align to get up off the couch and change our lives.
Time is not our friend either...every day that passes is a day less we have to work toward who or what we want to be. Going back to my Superman days...I believed that if I wanted it bad enough I could be Superman, that led me to tie that towel around my neck and jump out that second story window onto a twin mattress...and yes I may have cried for half an hour when I bounced and hit my head on the sidewalk...but guess what...at least I got up off the couch and tried.
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