Financial Procrastination
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Angela Ardis
By Angela Ardis
Published on 04/1/2008
In planning our life’s dreams, often times we get caught up planning, striving and attempting to maintain our “in the moment” lives, that we put our dreams by the waste side. In telling ourselves, “I’m not financially viable, yet,” or “I haven’t got enough in my savings, yet,” or “Once I pay off some bills, then I can start planning my dreams.” How much money is enough to jump off the cliff and pursue your dreams?
Angela Ardis
In planning our life’s dreams, often times we get caught up planning, striving and attempting to maintain our “in the moment” lives, that we put our dreams by the waste side. In telling ourselves, “I’m not financially viable, yet,” or “I haven’t got enough in my savings, yet,” or “Once I pay off some bills, then I can start planning my dreams.” How much money is enough to jump off the cliff and pursue your dreams?
That little entrepreneurial endeavor that you’ve dreamt about since your were a child, a teen, a college student, or a daydream that never went away. Why does it always take a lifetime to do what you’ve always wanted to do your entire life?
Call it procrastination, excuses or down right fear but whatever you decide to label it know that the only person that is truly being stagnated by the justifications is YOU.
I believe that more often than not, people use the excuse that they don’t have enough money to keep the brick wall between their dream and their fear of failure. Talking about the business, over time, begins to give them a cushion of everlasting hope and pseudo goal expectations, which keeps their fear at bay and their accomplishment and dream from ever happening.
If fear of failure is what is preventing you from starting a small business or whatever your dream maybe, you have to get around it and forge ahead.
My point is that failure can be uncomfortable and unpleasant, but is not life-threatening. And failure is always an opportunity of one kind or another – an opportunity to stretch beyond our usual boundaries, to learn something valuable, or to make previously undreamed-of connections.
Remembering this positive face of failure and focusing on it will go a long way towards changing your attitude about it. Starting and running your own small business could be one of the most enriching experiences of your life. Don’t let your fear of failure make you miss out.
Money is never the problem. There are people out there who built their dreams from nothing. It wasn’t about how much did they save before they jumped off the cliff but rather what did they have to do to get started, to keep moving and to make their purposes in life count everyday.
These types of people I admire most. They are those who have no excuses only vision, drive and crazy determination to be happy doing what they want to do with their lives and making it happen immediately; not once they’ve saved a million dollars, or paid off all of their bills or any of the other walls that one can think of to help conspire with procrastination. You are not going to be able to outrun your fear. But eventually, once you build on enough successes, you will be able to tame it.
That little boutique is waiting. That consulting business is waiting. That interior design business is waiting. Those real estate opportunities are waiting.
Your dreams are out there somewhere floating around waiting on you to stop making excuses and start taking steps in the entrepreneurial direction. Maybe your dreams aren’t entrepreneurial at all.
My point is not to focus on your fear or how much money you don’t have. I’ve always said in my articles that we can find money to do things and to buy things that we want EVERYDAY.
Furthermore, fear doesn’t stop that Starbuck’s run or that trip to Nordstrom’s for those shoes you saw. These small dreams of a frappuccino and dreams of shoes you’ve seen in magazines being in your closet aren’t dreams any more once you’ve walked into those establishments and took control over having them. It’s that simple. Nike said it best and I’ll quote them until I die, “JUST DO IT!”
Bills come every month like clock work. Find a way to manage them so that they don’t interfere with your mindset for your dreams. Your life can be everything you’ve ever dreamed it should be or it can be what it is.
The choice is always yours to make and your life can always be changed, by you, every second, minute, and hour that passes. Your destiny is waiting for you!
GO GET IT!
Angela Ardis is the author of “Inside a Thug’s Heart,” “My Mind’s Poetry” and the upcoming “The Block.” To contact Angela Ardis visit www.AngelaArdis.com or send emails to: info@AngelaArdis.com
In planning our life’s dreams, often times we get caught up planning, striving and attempting to maintain our “in the moment” lives, that we put our dreams by the waste side. In telling ourselves, “I’m not financially viable, yet,” or “I haven’t got enough in my savings, yet,” or “Once I pay off some bills, then I can start planning my dreams.” How much money is enough to jump off the cliff and pursue your dreams? “In the moment”
Angela Ardis
In planning our life’s dreams, often times we get caught up planning, striving and attempting to maintain our “in the moment” lives, that we put our dreams by the waste side. In telling ourselves, “I’m not financially viable, yet,” or “I haven’t got enough in my savings, yet,” or “Once I pay off some bills, then I can start planning my dreams.” How much money is enough to jump off the cliff and pursue your dreams?
That little entrepreneurial endeavor that you’ve dreamt about since your were a child, a teen, a college student, or a daydream that never went away. Why does it always take a lifetime to do what you’ve always wanted to do your entire life?
Call it procrastination, excuses or down right fear but whatever you decide to label it know that the only person that is truly being stagnated by the justifications is YOU.
I believe that more often than not, people use the excuse that they don’t have enough money to keep the brick wall between their dream and their fear of failure. Talking about the business, over time, begins to give them a cushion of everlasting hope and pseudo goal expectations, which keeps their fear at bay and their accomplishment and dream from ever happening.
If fear of failure is what is preventing you from starting a small business or whatever your dream maybe, you have to get around it and forge ahead.
My point is that failure can be uncomfortable and unpleasant, but is not life-threatening. And failure is always an opportunity of one kind or another – an opportunity to stretch beyond our usual boundaries, to learn something valuable, or to make previously undreamed-of connections.
Remembering this positive face of failure and focusing on it will go a long way towards changing your attitude about it. Starting and running your own small business could be one of the most enriching experiences of your life. Don’t let your fear of failure make you miss out.
Money is never the problem. There are people out there who built their dreams from nothing. It wasn’t about how much did they save before they jumped off the cliff but rather what did they have to do to get started, to keep moving and to make their purposes in life count everyday.
These types of people I admire most. They are those who have no excuses only vision, drive and crazy determination to be happy doing what they want to do with their lives and making it happen immediately; not once they’ve saved a million dollars, or paid off all of their bills or any of the other walls that one can think of to help conspire with procrastination. You are not going to be able to outrun your fear. But eventually, once you build on enough successes, you will be able to tame it.
That little boutique is waiting. That consulting business is waiting. That interior design business is waiting. Those real estate opportunities are waiting.
Your dreams are out there somewhere floating around waiting on you to stop making excuses and start taking steps in the entrepreneurial direction. Maybe your dreams aren’t entrepreneurial at all.
My point is not to focus on your fear or how much money you don’t have. I’ve always said in my articles that we can find money to do things and to buy things that we want EVERYDAY.
Furthermore, fear doesn’t stop that Starbuck’s run or that trip to Nordstrom’s for those shoes you saw. These small dreams of a frappuccino and dreams of shoes you’ve seen in magazines being in your closet aren’t dreams any more once you’ve walked into those establishments and took control over having them. It’s that simple. Nike said it best and I’ll quote them until I die, “JUST DO IT!”
Bills come every month like clock work. Find a way to manage them so that they don’t interfere with your mindset for your dreams. Your life can be everything you’ve ever dreamed it should be or it can be what it is.
The choice is always yours to make and your life can always be changed, by you, every second, minute, and hour that passes. Your destiny is waiting for you!
GO GET IT!
Angela Ardis is the author of “Inside a Thug’s Heart,” “My Mind’s Poetry” and the upcoming “The Block.” To contact Angela Ardis visit www.AngelaArdis.com or send emails to: info@AngelaArdis.com