You gotta do it NOW! How often have you heard that, especially from sales persons.
I spent a number of years in fundraising development and all we heard was “create a sense of urgency”. Every appeal had to create a sense of “urgency” or “crisis”.
One of the neat things about the 2nd half of the journey is at some point, we cease to view everything with a sense of ‘urgency’.
However, there are some things that require some sense of “do it NOW’! Because if we don’t we may never accomplish our 2nd half of life goals!
Look at it this way! If we have a dream; we have discovered our passion and purpose, and we’ve begun a plan to make it happen - then what are we waiting for?
How often I hear women our ages talk about their vision and dreams as if they have all the time in the world! My usual response is, “when do you plan to get started?” Followed by, “what are you waiting for?”
You can’t imagine the shock on their faces!
While they’re searching for the answer to my provocative questions, I’m thinking - will she come to the end of life wishing she’d pursued with just a little bit more sense of ‘urgency’!
In another article, I mentioned that John Maxwell does a daily personal life plan that is ‘tucked up under’ his life goal(s). Everyday he does something toward accomplishing (or at least maintaining) his overall life plan. He’s fortunate to have discovered his passion and purpose early in life.
Some of us don’t come to that place until we’re into the 2nd half of the journey. I didn’t and there are days when I think that those folks who like to say to me - “you’re starting something new at your age?” - incredulous that someone my age would launch a new thing - may be right!
What those kind of comments do is raise a sense of urgency in me to move - to get going - to do enough each day toward the goal to make certain I see the fruits of my labor.
If you’re reading this right now and thinking about what you might do once you’ve retired or dreaming of an early retirement so you can pursue your passion and purpose; I encourage you to stir up a sense of urgency within that moves you to begin mapping the rest of the journey based upon what motivates you; whets your ambitions, and meshes with what you are passionate about or for!
Don’t wait another day! Get a grip on how you want to spend the 2nd half of the journey; look at it from all angles; put it on paper; determine what is and is not doable - and then take the first bite of the ‘elephant’.
And the first bite is putting it all on paper! Once you see it - you can believe it will be! And once you believe it will be - you’re in the best place to begin stepping toward that end.
Stir up a sense of urgency today! Decide what must be done first and put it on tomorrow’s life plan “to do” list.
And then do it!
Author Resource:-
Linda S. Fitzgerald, M.S.Ed, has a passion for enriching, empowering and encouraging women to achieve their God-given destiny. A professional therapist by background and destiny-design coach, she is chief architect for the web’s newest online COMMUNITY for women age 45 plus!
Please visit http://awomensplace.org/blog for great information on topics of interest to women transitioning through life’s most exciting season.
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