All things considered

I wonder what the number would be if you surveyed everyone on earth and asked them how many things they would change in their life right now if they could.
Finances, fitness, relationships, living conditions, social calendars, mental health, etc...how many changes would people really make?

I wonder what my number would be?

I wonder what really stops us all from being exactly who and what we want to be?

Are there really lots of things? Or are we really our own obstacle?

Better still...how much of who we are and what our lives consist of is based on circumstance and luck?

How much of what we feel we need and want is God withholding?

How much of the things we ask God for are waiting just around the corner? Waiting for us to move?

I think about all the things I wish for and want. I think about the person I am inside and how often that person comes out. It's infrequent...

And I think about how often I shortchange myself out of wonderful things because of habits or patterns of thought ive created.

I use this blog to toss around a lot of thoughts and ideas and today is no different.

Tonight I'm wondering...how drastically would life change if I just moved on?

If instead of worrying, I walked away.
If instead of sitting I prepared.
If instead of eating I exercised.
If instead of complying, I confronted.
If instead of wondering, I asked.
If instead of hoping, I pressed to realize.
If instead of spending, I saved.
If instead of forcing or manipulating, I relinquished.

If, simply, I stopped planning, and I executed?

What, after all, am I so afraid of?

I'll say this now...I'm tired of doing these ideas alone. If this post has provoked you in some way email me. Jiggsm@gmail.com, or text me... 8643989418 and tell me about it.  I really want to know. What thing do you keep doing our have you never begun that has prevented you from having or being what you want? What, if anything, are you going to walk away from right now.

Start right now. Stop right now.

Be you. All out. And lets be us together.

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