Sometimes I look back at how my life was just a few years ago..
Pinching pennies, trying to save on every single thing I bought, celebrating a $1.95 purchase instead of paying the full $2.
Truly believing that I needed to work hard, work often, work tirelessly, to make 6-figures (and definitely 7-figs and up).
Reading personal-finance and frugal living blogs (including writing for my own!), soaking up how to save more money, which often meant cutting out things from my life that truly made me happy, just to save a few bucks a month.
Hating the rich and seeing them as slimy, greedy, selfish motherfuckers that shouldn’t be trusted (I’ve since learned the complete opposite is true, and I love rich people - and am friends with a few of ’em and know first-hand how the stigma around wealth is total BS).
Spending so much time doing shit I hated, just because I thought thay I HAD to, including cleaning my own house (say WHAT?!), cooking all my food (WHAT!! unheard of!), doing work I was no longer passionate about, letting people verbally abuse me and treat me like crap, because “they pay my bills”.
I look back and I feel so sorry for that girl.
I feel sad for her. For all that she believed was true about herself and the world, but that wasn’t.
I feel outraged for her that she allowed others to walk all over her, abuse her emotionally and verbally, and suck all of her happiness out of her soul.
I just want to go back and hug her and tell her that she is perfect, she is enough, she is worthy, and just hold on… in just a few years, you’re going to be living your most magical, dreamy life.
I wouldn’t believe the future me of course, but I would soon realize (as I now have), that she was right.
As I am NOW, right here in this moment, living my most magical, dreamy life.
Freedom to be who I truly am.
Doing work I am madly in love with.
Spending my days enjoying life.
Getting paid just to be ME.
Making more money than I ever imagined possible.
Total abundance in all areas.
That’s what how it IS for me.
But it would never BE this way, had I not made the decision to HAVE it. I didn’t know how. I didn’t know when. I didn’t know why, even. I just knew it was meant for me, and I chose to act accordingly.
I simply dropped the excuses as to why I couldn’t have the life, business, money, freedom that I wanted and I took action toward it, with the firm belief that it was already a done deal.. I just needed to catch up!
Where are you making excuses in your life?
Where are you settling for less than what you actually want, and deserve?
Where are you allowing fear and uncertainty to get in the way of you taking action toward your dreams.
The answers come when the action is taken. Not the other way around.
You will NOT know the how until you’ve already started taking the action toward aquiring what it is you want, whether that’s more money, a bigger house, total location freedom, a romantic partner, your ideal body & health.. anything.
You must ACT first.
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Take the first step. And once you do, the next step will be provided for you. As will the next be. And on and on, until the next thing you know, you’re looking back at your life just a few years ago and saying to yourself –
“Holy shit! It actually worked! I’m living that life NOW!”
And then you’ll set your next goal and your intentions for your life, and on and on you go.
THIS is what life is all about, this is exactly what you need to focus on. This is the ONLY thing that matters.
If you want to create a life that you are head-over-heels in love with, you need to commit to it. You need to be hell-bent on making it a reality. You need to TRUST in your ability to create it. And of course, you need to act. Right now.
Take an action. Any action. It doesn’t matter what it is. What matters is that you do it. And you keep taking actions every day, during which you are watching for your next action to be presented to you. And then you take that action.
You never know how close you are to getting what you want.
Don’t stop! Don’t give up!