How often have you heard the comment ‘I’m just waiting for this or that to happen before I can feel happy or successful?”

The truth is that happiness and success are all attitudes and states of mind and therefore are available to us right now without any need to wait for them to mysteriously descend on us from high. We can be as happy and successful as we choose to be. 

Unfortunately for most of us we don’t make that decision and we continue to put off what we say we want until the conditions are just right and of course those conditions are never just right enough. So our lack of happiness and success (according to our various personal definitions) continues unabated and unchallenged.

When we choose to delay receiving what is our birthright we often do so because we feel undeserving, we fear being successful, we believe in scarcity, we believe that we are not good enough and any number of other negative ideas about who we think we are and what we deserve.

It is these thoughts that keep us stuck in the mire of procrastination failing to take the very next step that will propel us forward towards the next opening or opportunity. As Albert Einstein stated ” Nothing happens until something moves.” When we become victims of our own self imposed paralysis there is no opportunity open to us to break out into unchartered territory and invite the universe to join with us on the road to new adventures. We remain stuck living our present based on our past and our present determines our future.

What we end up experiencing is the same stuff we have experienced before and continue to experience now! Insanity can be defined loosely as keeping on doing the same things and expecting different results.

If you feel stuck and unable to move forward toward your dreams then change your mindset now. All it takes is being open to something new – that in and of itself is the first step toward a different future. When opportunities arise don’t do what you have always done and over analyse instead be open to explore what is being offered. That of course does not mean that you rush in without some prior thought about what you are going to do it simply means that you are open to something new and you allow the possibility room to grow.

All unhappiness, depression and eventual dysfunction stems from a continual resistence to change even though you continue to perpetuate negative thinking (or “stinking thinking”) about your current situation. This is the same as driving your car with one foot on the brake and the other on the accelerator – this will result in you going nowhere fast and eventually you will blow up your engine! It may be time for you to take yourself into the garage of self-reflection and get your thinking serviced!

A life full of excitement and adventure, happiness and success awaits you. The good news or for some of you perhaps the bad news is that you will need to take the next step yourself. There is no room for victim-hood and blame. Nobody else is responsible for your life and that may come as news to some of you who have created your lives based on these self-defeating principles.

If you want to experience happiness and success ease your foot off your internal brake and nose your car out of the garage of complacency and begin your journey of discovery now! You only have one life and the clock is ticking. You won’t enjoy looking back on your life and having regrets. You will not regret what you have done only what you have’nt.