2026 is knocking on our front door. Are you living a life full of joy, fulfillment, purpose and gratitude with unshakable confidence knowing that it only gets so much better? If not, What Are You Waiting For?
Before answering or reading any further stop and look around at what surrounds you in this moment. Now take a deep breath, close your eyes, and Look Within.
Which is holding you back? Which holds more weight in answering the question
What are you Waiting For?
My experience with this question is within, but when asked, most people feel or think it’s easier to find our answer by looking around. As humans we are conditioned to believe that the greatest things in life come from external sources. So the popular choice in achieving, obtaining, or living a successful happy life is using the time you are given to hustle, grind, work hard, keep pushing, trying, or doing whatever it takes to do, be, and have a life worth measuring up. But what happens when we just simply exhaust ourselves trying, and life seems nothing but hard?
How do we pivot, shifting the path of our lives from hard to new and inspired? How can we spend more time in build, grow, and flourish mode? Or maybe you are saying, the better question is, is this even possible? And if so, at what cost? If you are living in the above paragraph, you are already exhausting the greatest commodity you can never get back, so what do you really have to lose by exploring a new path or even the life of your dreams?
But wait, before going any further I guess I should pose the question:
Do you even know what that would look like?
We have all followed the external flow longer than an internal guidance system, self included. But what happens when we choose to stop, ask hard questions, and pivot out of an external current life reality into creating a new reality from the inside out? Life takes on a whole new meaning, and not only do we see and feel free, but we start to automatically gravitate towards only what aligns with joy, abundance, freedom and love. Yes, it is possible to love every nuance of your life when you choose to shift into alignment with a different feeling. I know this because I have done it, i feel it moment to moment and recognize when things no longer or won’t fit and I realign when needed.
So I find myself lost at times in what I see, asking, what does all this time spent chasing a hard discipline life of resistance get us? My internal greater voice and past life experience says tired. My visual eyes look around and see exhausted, unhappy people spending 1-2 days a week and maybe 1 paid week a year physically able to get out of the grind and enjoy any sort of fulfilment , joy or rest from the life they so desperately think they want.
Then what happens? We quickly forget how much joy we had utilizing our time for what we love or enjoy and go back to the path of resistance. At some point, (often without even realizing it) quality of life degrades, dis-ease sets in and we, as Van Halen sang about- Work so hard to make things easy- that we cannot even enjoy the fruits of our labor simply because we aren’t powerful or even optimal human beings any longer.
We become products of the environment, leading us to believe this vicious cycle is the only way to live. And others thriving living the grind, seemingly happy and prosperous, are they really? Or somewhere along the road did their path take a lucky road to everything on the life list and now they have everything for the sacrifice of time to use or enjoy because they fought so hard to obtain it? That, I cannot answer, but I ponder and stay on my path because I am the only proof I need to know how I want my life to feel, look, and be.
So I ask……when does the shift begin to stop the vicious cycle of sheep hood? How do we unite through differences and embrace the unique nature of individuality without hatred in our hearts, envy in our bones, and entitlement in our minds?
Could it be as simple as doing nothing, getting still to hear the way forward from whatever you see or believe created you to thrive without all the resistance both internal and externally? No depression from the past, nervousness in the present. or anxiety for a future unknown. What would you do with your time if none of this existed in your mind/current reality?
What if all the time sacrificed for a paycheck, acceptance or expectations met was simply for a purposed path to a better life serving the greater good? Would this put us all on the same playing field, all equal, empowered and joyful creating without competition, living without lack, and unifying for the greater good?
Maybe you are saying no, this is a dreamers perspective and maybe I’m different, cut from another cloth, an originator, anomaly, or disruptor living in a world of chasers, followers, and doers, or maybe this amazing life that has been spent in observance of the path from my past shows me, lead from a voice within rather than external norms, that this is the way we can all choose to live.
So, I ask…. Could it really be as simple as getting still to do nothing so we can create a life of anything we choose? Could following the flow from an unseen source really change everything and allow a greater world unified through this source for all with no exceptions? Has too much time been used, so much that there is no coming back out of the accepted and expected norm of working to live and living to work?
If this cost you nothing but taking back some of your time and its just one step in a different way of living to find out, would you be willing to step off your own beaten path to find out? Or would you keep waiting for fear of the unknown? If I assured you, you have nothing to lose and only happiness, joy, freedom and wisdom to gain, would you still wait? If so, then you should ask yourself-What am I Waiting For?