Snowmass, CO – heavenly!!
I have been procrastinating planning a skiing trip since the beginning of December. I finally realized why. I have been waiting! I have been waiting for the right time, the right location, the right weather, the right price, but most important and most disturbing to me, I have been waiting for company, for someone. I have been waiting for a miracle in the form of a person.
I have been waiting for someone to step up and say: I want to go skiing with you! I had this crazy idea that by now I would have met someone, not to love me, but just to ski with me. No such luck! Well, perhaps the luck is in not finding someone and to have to face certain truths.
It has been a daily thing. I get up motivated thinking today is the day that I will make decisions as far as my trip is concerned. I start researching places and dates and all of a sudden it all seems too much and I let it go. I keep coming up with excuses:
Excuse #1: It is too much money! Truth: I am a wise spender and like to indulge on this I love such as skiing trips and massages. Plus I have been saving for it!
Excuse #2: It is not the right time to be away from work. Truth: There never seems to be a perfect time to be out of the office. I have done it many times before and everyone survived.
Excuse #3: I am sure the moment I plan something I will meet someone and the plans will conflict. Truth: It could or it could not happen, but waiting for it is dumb. If I meet someone, they can either fit in my plans or they can wait until I am done with my plans.
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
― Pablo Picasso
I have been guilty of doing something that, a long time ago, I had vowed never to do: To wait for someone to do something with or to get something done. Shame on me! I should and I know better! I have done so much alone, with no issues or problems. It is time to get back to that fierce independence, and just get out there and do it!
My beautiful (she is my identical twin lol) and wise sister said to me today: What is going on? You always went on trips alone and you always had a lot fun! Stop making excuses!
My advice to you and at the same time to me is: Don’t wait until tomorrow and, most important, don’t wait for others! Start living the life you want now! All it takes it a first step! Embrace yourself, embrace now! (Are you listening Miss Blessed?)
The right time is now! The right person is you! You alone are enough! If it needs to be done, needs to be done now! If you want to experience something, try something new, a new sport, a new craft, whatever it is, start now!
What do you want to accomplish? Look into your heart, I am sure there is at least one thing you want to do or try. Can you imagine if you had already started it last week, last month, last year? So don’t waste any more time!
Don’t wait until you lose weight to wear the clothes you like, to take a trip, to go on dates. Life doesn’t wait for anyone. Life is going by while we make excuses not to live it. Life passes while we make plans or, worse, plan to make plans. So instead we just watch life, we watch others all around us, we watch it on TV. We make ourselves busy with nothing, instead of getting out there and doing something.
As soon as I post this blog, I will get focused on finalizing my trip details. I am still all over the place, from flying to Utah at the end of January to renting a car and driving to Vermont in February, but I have faith that by Friday I will have it all set!
“Today is a new day. Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!”
― Steve Maraboli
your blog read like my mind, waiting for Godot never gets results, thanks for sharing, what a blast, bless you
Awesome! I am glad you enjoyed it! Blessings to you too! 🙂
i wrote a small book on wisdom last night, based on your thinking, you got talent, blessings
you have? that is awesome! I look forward to reading it!!
Thank you for the kind compliment! blessings right back to you! 🙂
I wish you luck, you’ll manage, I’m sure. Pawkiss 🙂
One way or another I am going and I am sure it will be fun! An adventure awaits me! Kisses and blessings back! 🙂
I sing the same song too even though I know very well procrastination is not a friend. Thank you for the nice reminder and for sharing this lovely post. Enjoy your ski holiday and make sure it happens soon ! 🙂
You are welcome! I often need to remind myself of a lot! I am working on making it happen at this moment! Blessings! 🙂
So timely! Going to take a road trip!! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome! I love road trips…well I love all trips!
Wherever you are going may you be blessed with a great time and make wonderful memories! 🙂
Thanks!!
Well done, go for it. You will have a great time even alone, much more independent, more fun. I shall do the same, and travel again this year. It was so great last year. I do like your quotes in your post. So glad you do it…. and we can see some pictures hopefully 😊⛄
Thank you so much! And if you ever travel to NY you have to let me know – I am buying you dinner!! I will make a point of taking pictures just for the blog!! Blessings! 🙂
What an offer.:-) Thank you so much. Enjoy your travels and skiing!
🙂 Thank you!
Thanks! I really needed that pep talk…..it always sounds so much better when someone else says it. 🙂
Ah, glad I could help! Now go on and get moving!! lol
Many blessings! 🙂
I love your “go get it attitude!” One of my goals in the past few years is to just say “yes”… To the things I have always wanted to do…for example, I used to write for a living and gave it up to pay the bills another way. I stopped for many years…then last May I said, “enough” and I started blogging. (Didn’t even know how to start). But I did it anyway, and it has remind me the power of YES… As I tell my on kid….ATTITUDE EQUALS ALTITUDE….and perhaps a chair lift to the top of the slope in your case 😉
Good for you for starting to write again. Blogging is a great re-introduction to writing…and we get to make friends too!
Good luck on continuing to say yes to things you love – you set a great example to your kid! I like that “Attitude equals Altitude”! Many blessings to you! 🙂
OK, now there is no perfect weather for skiing of except for winter, and also where does it say that you have to take someone with you. You can have as much fun by yourself if you plan your trip right.
I agree, I have a small window of opportunity! I happen to love my own company so me, myself and I will have fun 🙂 right now I am still working on getting the trip planned, but one way or another I am going skiing!! blessings! 🙂
That is great, I’m going to create another blog to share my vacation experiences with everyone. Also, you might want to check out the website vacationsmadeeasy.com, that is where you can customize your vacation package, from the room, what you would like to do, right down to meals and more, it is great and that way everything is paid for except for whatever else you would like to, of course
I look forward to reading your vacation blog. I used Liberty Travel this time because I was getting so confused. But that site sounds great so I will check it out for a next time. Thank you for the tip! Blessings! 🙂
Oh Your welcome. If you do use it next time, let me know how you like it OK.
I will! 🙂
That was one helluva pep talk!! I much needed it! Thank you so much, and have a great trip. I am going to take my first step alone too! 😉
Cheers,
Sumithra.
That is great to hear!! Alone is not lonely, alone is adventurous and fun! Just make sure to be safe! Thank you and blessings! 🙂
A great post and a great reminder to take our own action and make our own life.
Well said!! My life is mine to make, it is all up to me!! Many blessings! 🙂
I nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award. You remind me of me. I procrastinate a lot and learned not to. ” Do now, what you can’t put off tomorrow”.
Thank you so much for the nomination! It make me feel special and it makes me smile! :–)
Your welcome, and I am glad to here it made your day.
And why not stop delaying all the choices?
Experience… without waiting for someone to come (knock knock, can I come?) in your life…
When you do the first step, without waiting for s.o. gives you permission, everything will fall in the right space!
Here it snowed a lot (I live in a small town in southern Switzerland), the mountains are behind the house…
serenity and a lovely sunday 🙂 claudine
It sounds like you live in a beautiful place! I hope to ski in Switzerland at some point in the future. I hope your Sunday was amazing! Many blessings! 🙂
Go do it and you will find people who like doing what you are doing.
Not sitting around waiting to be found.
I like the quotes, Steve Maraboli especially.
Thank you! Steve Maraboli always takes the words out of my mouth! 🙂 Sitting around doesn’t get us anywhere, it is better to be doing, even if failing! Many blessings to you! 🙂
You are the one you have been waiting for 🙂
Thank you for a lovely post.
Nice way to look at it!…and so correct! Blessings!