You’re bigger than your circumstances.
Can you think of a time when what you wanted was bigger than what your circumstances told you was possible?
When you wanted to be healthier but the scale told you otherwise.
You wanted a different job, but you didn’t think you were qualified.
When you wanted to start a business, but you didn’t know what you’d sell.
When you wanted a relationship, but you had been burned before.
You wanted to move to a different part of town, but your bank account said you couldn’t afford it.
It doesn’t matter what you want. What matters is that you’re willing to change things up in your everyday life so that you can get what you want.
No one else will ever want what you want as much as you do. It’s up to you to declare it and determine what steps need to happen for it to become a reality.
Imagine a 17 year-old with no money declaring she was going to Hawaii!
That was me. My senior year in high school.
This was an incredibly far-fetched idea… I was 17, had been on a plane once, had no money to buy a plane ticket and did I mention I was basically a child? There’s no way my parents would’ve let me go.
Believe it or not, but I made it happen.
I went from being a 17 year-old high school student who’d never had more than $20 or ever planned a trip to someone who earned $1000, persuaded her parents to let her go and learned how to plan a trip.
Pursuing what you want isn’t easy. You’re going after something that you’ve never had before. It requires thought, intention and many out-of-your-comfort-zone action steps.
My desire to get to Hawaii was greater than any of the discomfort of figuring out the unknowns or taking big action steps.
The older we get it’s easier to give up before we’ve even begun.
We know more, we’re jaded, we’ve heard “No” many times over, we have responsibilities and bills to pay.
But if there’s something on your heart that you want to pursue you can make it happen!
The first step?
Becoming a person who’s willing to do what you need to do. And usually, that means being willing to become a person you’ve never been before.
Here’s something to think about…
What’s an area of your life that you’re frustrated by that you want to change?
What makes it challenging to make that change?
What makes it important for it to change?
What’s one small step that you can take to make it possible?
Now do it. Today.
As a naive, broke 17 year-old I started by calling a travel agent to see how much a roundtrip plane ticket would cost.
Whatever it is that you want, just start.
And if you want, email me to tell me that you did it at hello [at] annaynelson.com.