The Jim Fortin Podcast Ep 185: Later Never Comes. Later Is A Lie.
It’s a profound truth most of us miss for years, decades, and sometimes a lifetime.
About a decade ago one of my friends wrote a book on alcoholism and he asked me to proof it for him before he self-published it. When I read the book one line hit me hard, and I wasn’t even an alcoholic but that line was, “An alcoholic waits to stop drinking tomorrow and that tomorrow never comes.”
That last line hit me hard, really hard, and the reason why is that I realized that it applied to all of my life and all of our lives.
We ‘excuse away' life and we say things like, “I’ll go to college someday and I’ll travel Europe, and I’ll change jobs and I’ll learn to cook and someday I’ll even learn to play a musical instrument.”
And, what do we do? We wait for that someday. We don’t take action…we wait until later and then three, five, ten years later we say, “Oh yeah, I said I was going to wait until _____ to blank but I forgot. Oh well, that was a long while back and it’s too late now but I sure wish I would have done that.”
And the “Later Hamster Wheel” goes on another week, month, year, and many times a lifetime.
WHY? Later never comes because later comes from what you do now and if you wait until later to do now then later never comes.
Hence, waiting for later is a lie to yourself and then the excuses make you feel better about yourself and you rationalize away your life.
The irony is that most of us want more in life and we wait until later to get it and that later, as you know, never comes.
So, the solution…Act now, but if it were that easy you would have done it already. It takes courage and it takes action.
So, instead of waiting to act now ask yourself this, “What is causing me not to act now?”
HINT: Most times when we want to do something much bigger in life it’s the F word that stops us! (Fear)
Transformational Takeaway: Later Never Comes When You Wait For It – Act Now!
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With Gratitude, Jim Fortin