The Door of Opportunity

We are all given the chance to play our hand at life, but it is what we do with our cards that decide where the pieces fall. Sometimes it seems like your path is a clear cut diamond, and just like that the epiphany hits that it was all a pretense. We all have goals, but allow the numerous justifications to get in the way. It is hypocritical to state this without admitting that I myself was in the same bind.

For me teaching was (and still is) a driving factor in my life. I centralized every waking moment envisioning my end goal of becoming a classroom educator for children. What I never anticipated was that my love of helping others would overpower my ability to reciprocate that admiration in return. I let myself get run down wearing out my social, emotional, and physical battery to the point that the body is rather intuitive and screams to be taken care of. It is easy to plan life down to the minute, but that seems like nueroticism at its finest.

It took me being unconscious for two days to cognize that every day I was living my life with the fear of rejection, I was dying internally. I pushed so many dreams to the side because of devoting my time to others. This might sound selfish, but in life all the discipline boxes check out when one can dedicate some time to themselves. I used to jot things down in my planner to the second, yet still did not have enough time in the day. What shifted in my paradigm was that life is about persuing your dreams; not keeping your aspirations trapped in your head and condemning yourself to eternal wishing. Your dreams don't work unless you do; that is the reality of it.

Life requires 3 D's: discipline, determination, and dedication. Bruno Mars said it best, "I want to be a billionaire, so freakin bad. Smile at all the things I never had." We all want things in life, but that is not enough to attain what we desire. My question is this: if you want it, do you have what it takes to make it happen? In my case, I chose to brace my fear of rejection to expand my horizons and see what happens...

We live in our heads and often prevent ourselves from going after what we want. By blocking the energy pathways of dreaming, we let others dictate what we are able to do. Fear of reaching for the moon will never land you on a star or anywhere close to it. What is your biggest fear and how are you choosing to embrace opportunity?