Carpe Diem

Mornings, Mondays and Firsts.

What do these three things have in common?

They are all at the beginning.

Mornings … the beginning of the day.
Mondays … the beginning of the school/work week.
Firsts … the beginning of the month or the year.

For whatever reason, any new idea, plan or change I am wanting to implement into my life and/or family … I will always start at the very beginning. According to Julie Andrews, it’s a very good place to start, ya know.

If it’s the middle of the day and I decide I want to try eating healthier, I’ll wait until the next morning (or week, or month, or year) to begin.

If it’s Wednesday and I think of a new daily schedule or routine I want to incorporate into our schooling, I will wait until the following Monday (beginning of the week) to try it.

If I want to attempt a life-shifting decision, like going without FaceBook (social media free) for a long time, I’ll wait until the turn of the new year, on the first, to begin.

Catch that theme? I will wait …

I’m not fully sure why, but I do know this is an action (waiting …) I tend to do.  Hmmmm … that’s probably more of an inaction, than an actual action. Either way, it’s a pattern of mine.

There’s just something about being at the beginning that helps me feel better or more prepared. Perhaps I wait … because it’s a fresh start as I’m not jumping into the middle of it; or because I like projects to be orderly with a beginning, middle and end; or maybe because I fear messing it up before I fully understand or comprehend it. Yes, I like waiting.

Knowing this, knowing I tend to put things off instead of jumping right in, I’m going to try something new for a bit. I’m going to do the exact opposite.

Instead of being afraid, waiting, fearing failure, trying to understand it all, or not wanting to fumble my way through it, I am making a deliberate choice to just begin. No matter when or where, I’ll just start. No more waiting.

This may be reckless, I don’t know, but I’m going to give it a go. I may fall flat on my face a few times, but I’m at least going to fall trying. I don’t want to be paralyzed any more.

One of my goals, as of late, is to try to blog every single day of the week (but still not on weekends). Make it habit and just practice the skill of writing. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to accomplish this every week … but I have resolved myself to be OK with falling short along the way. For instance, I missed posting something yesterday, but that’s OK! I didn’t stress about it, at all. I’m going to live, you’re going to live, and life will continue to move forward.

I simply know I won’t hit any target at all if I don’t even have one to aim at in the first place. But, if I aim and just keep shooting, something is bound to stick. So, I’m going to go for it. If I have the urge to wait and wait for when it’s “best” to begin, I’m going to move to action, instead. Not just do the talking, but start taking action. Again, I will likely mess up quite a bit along the way, but I’m learning to be OK with that.

I just know, if I wait for the “perfect” time or the “perfect” beginning to start everything I want to do or dream of doing, I may end up doing … absolutely nothing.

Nope. That is not what I want. It’s time to get a moving.

Carpe Diem.

Seize the day.

To God be the Glory!

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