Focus without foundation is failure as much as foundation without focus is failure. There are a lot of things in my life right now that I "always wanted to do;" now I can see that no matter how desperately I wanted them, none of them could happen till I had the foundation built (including giving up urgency and struggle as a way of being). I went pretty fast and broke quite a few eggs, but I will turn 50 this spring and just now can I see that I AM doing what I always wanted to do, PLUS I have a full life to go with it.

Our society lies. It tells our young people that we are entitled to have thing be as we wish, and that things we want can come instantly. In fact we MAY have things as we wish IF we do the things that bring them about, including building a platform upon which they can be sustained. But this is cause and effect, not the fulfillment of a right. And nothing actually happens instantly. There are always invisible parts of the process that take lots and lots of time.

What we CAN do is choose to be well and pursue wellness, choose to be positive in any moment that invites us to be otherwise, and choose whether to move forward in actuality, or to hope and think we are moving forward while actually staying stuck, slipping backwards, or hopping back and forth.

The successful human beings I have known and chosen as role models have known that, lived it, and insisted on it while I raged against it.

~Susan