Embrace your future today!

Sometimes we wonder why things are not changing for us. Everyone else seem to be moving forward but we are stuck in a rut. It may be a dead-end job like the one I once had where it was clear that promotion was inconceivable in the organization, despicable did not even begin to describe the conditions of work and the environment yet I stayed at the job for a few years before moving on.

It may be a desire to achieve something more but life, procrastination, and doubts flood in and before we know it, several years have gone and not a lot has happened in our lives. Zero difference and we are hit by the blues.

Often the reasons we stay static is because we dread leaving our comfort zone. The frustrations of stagnancy not quite overpowering our fear of the unknown. We hide under sayings like ‘the devil you know is better than the angel you do not know’ in desperate attempts to justify our current state. We blame it on people or things not wanting to take responsibility but as Shakespeare recognised " the fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves."

We can make a decision to stop the current cycle,make a move and change. That word change, how we fail to adequately grasp its importance. It is what separates the successful from the failures. It differentiates the goal getters from the back benchers. It is the reason why the past becomes present, the present becomes past and the future the present. Any day we choose we can begin the process of change.

Nothing ever just happens. We make things happen by doing something. So if that situation you are in seems to be more than you can bear. Change it! Embrace your future today.