Nothing grows in your comfort zone

Just after coming across the previous meme where I said something about change, I found this one. And it says it all. The inside of the jar is both comforting and safe, and uncomfortable and unsafe. But most people are afraid of change, of making the right decisions, of taking a leap of faith. So they remain put, they keep on making the same mistakes as before, until they look back years later with utter regret. Because then it's too late.

You are not getting another life

 'nuff said. I don't know how old you, my valued reader is, but I do know that you will never again be as young as you are today. Don't wait till it is too late, to start finishing off your bucket list. Do you even have a bucket list? Goals? Dreams? A clearly typed out plan with daily steps? You are your own biggest investment, or liability. Choose wisely. Make your life worth living. Take risks. Take that leap of faith in yourself and the one you love. 

Fear the regret that comes with an unlived life

Nothing is as bad as regret. Knowing you could, and should have taken a risk, and yet you didn't, till it's too late. That regret pains many, many people. Therefore, live today. Do something you always wanted to do, even a small, obscure, unique, unusual task. Let me give you one silly example. Pluck a flower, rob it of its life (I did say it's a silly example?), approach a stranger on the street, and give the flower to him or her. I bet 99 out of a 100 people reading this suggestion, won't have the guts to do it… But if you're that 1%, you'll be amazed by the results. Both for you, and the recipient.

 

Four things you cannot get back

 You won't read anything more true than this today. But people don't think about what they say that hurt others, they waste their precious time by taking illogical, harmful actions just to scratch an itch that destroys their happiness in the future.

What are you without your dreams?

 I regularly ask people what their dreams are. Disappointingly enough, many have no real dreams, just some vague castles in the sky. Others, that do have more defined dreams, have no plan to get to it. Which means, they will just never get anywhere, they are ships without rudders that get pushed to where others with plans push them to.

One cannot reach a dream, only a goal. And for that, one needs to have a plan typed out with all the steps, tied to dates, and to work that plan. But how many people that you know do it? Winners in society all have a plan typed out, that they review daily, before tackling the steps in there. Do the same.

Without a dream, that you convert into clear goals, and with firm steps to get to it, what empty life is that? It inevitably leads to tremendous regret later in life. Don't be scared, go sit down and write down where you want to be over exactly 5 years from today, and you'll be surprised how many people cannot even do this. They are scared of themselves, and you may be the same. But you can change that, just start working on a goal + plan right now.

Do it now or face regret forever

 

William Shakespeare said something like “Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.” Meaning, whatever bad things happen today, time waits for nobody, the day will pass.
  But the flipside is, a good day also flies past, you have to grab - or spit on, in Hawk Tuah-style - that thing and enjoy it. The enemy is time, one has to utilize it in full while you can still do things. Like travel, just do it. Even if you have to sell some possessions, or hitchhike, or whatever. But that dream you keep on putting off, may soon not be reachable anymore if you don't get to it ASAP. Rather make mistakes and be sorry, than to regret not doing it at all.