Life begins when you do...

An excerpt from

Life Begins When You Do

by Mary Anne Radmacher


Nearly everyone postpones one grand thing or a collection of mighty hopes and dreams.

Between the quote marks of
our lives are phrases like these: "When things slow down...when I finish
my degree...when I get certified... as I acquire a deeper knowledge
base...when I have kids...when the kids are grown...when I get
well...when I marry...when I divorce...when I retire...when I get that
promotion, that raise, that job, that house, that whatever the
fill-in-the blank is for your specific postponing of life..."

Your Life Begins When You Do.

You may think you are
postponing the longing of your soul until life aligns itself with your
vision, until elements conspire to be more favorable... but as it
happens, life just lolls along at the same remarkable consistent and
disinterested cadence. Life is impartial. YOUR personal, subjective life
(dreams, satisfactions, contentment, achievements, vision, fullness,
passion, aspirations) begins when you begin.

From my teens into
adulthood, I said, "I want to be an artist." One day I changed the
sentence to, "I am an artist." My view changed. Life began. I looked
behind me and saw that I had been accidentally living as an artist. I
had been laying down a path that was only now visible to eyes that had
begun to see. Beginning my life as an artist made my heart's longing and
the small, tentative labors of my hands - visible and tangible. I began
by opening the door and simply believing that I could live my dream. I
began living that dream by seeing that I could.

Your purpose, that thing
that among the many to-dos of your days, is what you must do. Embrace
the truth of your purpose each minute of your precious life...for how
very true it is that life begins when you do.

If you would dream it

BEGIN it.

If you have an idea

OPEN it.

If there is longing

ACKNOWLEDGE it.

If there is mission

COMMIT it.

If there is daring

DO it.

If there is love

SPEAK it.

If there is resource

USE it.

If there is abundance

SHARE it.

Courtesy - Cris Iyer