Considering Someday
We make promises to ourselves, and we break them. We feel guilty, and the guilt can even eclipse the real consequences of the broken promise. Guilt, or the threat of it, is a tool we use to keep ourselves on task, but that tactic can turn on us. Too many broken promises, and you learn not to make them. It's hard to make the leap from "want" to "goal" when you're afraid you're not good enough to get it done. So you stay where it's safe, and you sacrifice the possibility of accomplishment to "someday." Here's the truth that you need to swallow before you can make good things happen in your life: You are destined to fail. You will promise yourself things that you won't be able to deliver. You will set goals you never reach. It may be circumstances beyond your control that knock you off that ladder; it may be that the timing wasn't right for success, but you will fail. Sometimes. and then, sometimes,...