Don't Wait - Betsy Dickinson

Hi friends –

Can you believe it’s mid-March already?!?! Time flies by, but I find the first 3 months of the year always seem to go much more quickly than the rest of the year – and it doesn’t help when February is short a few days!

In the past month, I’ve had SO many things happen in my life that I am extremely grateful for – a successful business launch event, an amazing vacation in Puerto Vallarta with wonderful friends, an intense, but SO worthwhile workshop with my Business Coach and a trip to LA for an Oscars watch party that was the experience of a lifetime. I share this with you to show what it means to me to live life to its fullest extent.

During this same time, I’ve had a couple friends experience major losses—like rock you to your core major losses. There’s nothing I can say or do to change what happened and take away their pain. But I can start evangelizing this: don’t wait until tomorrow to tell your family and friends you love them. There is no guarantee that we will see tomorrow. And don’t put “that thing” off any longer.

So tell me: have you passed opportunities by thinking you don’t have the time or the money or the support to do something you’d REALLY love to do? Do you have a “someday/maybe” pile growing into the size of a small tree? Have you experienced some kind of adversity that will forever change your life and how you live it?

If so, then I’ll ask you “WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR????” (yelling caps intended). A quick internet search revealed all the great quotes related to living in the present, some of which bear repeating:

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, which is why we call it the present.”

– Bill Keane

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

– Lao Tzu

“No time like the present, a thousand unforeseen circumstances may interrupt you at a future time”

– John Trusler, 1562

“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”

– C.S. Lewis

This thing we have with putting things off is obviously not a new phenomenon if John Trusler wrote about it in 1562. So what is it in the human condition that keeps us from living the life we are all meant to live ???

More to come on the answer to that question…..but for now, go start that book, go plant that garden, go take that walk, go mend fences with your family – whatever it is. DON’T WAIT.

Be Love.
Betsy