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It’s 2010 And Later Than We Think – Risking it Now
Everybody gets to decide for themselves what goals they pursue, how they spend their resources (time, money), and they get to choose the life they want to live. Recently, there’s been a well known sports figure who for reasons known to him, was perhaps not living the life he apparently wants. It can be terrifying to do the hard work of figuring out the life you want, choosing it and then supporting it through your resources (time, money). And what if your life is really about porn stars and clubs and not spending time with the family in the family home? How hard is it to stay inside boundaries that don’t fit us? Everyone reveals themselves eventually – whether they mean to or not.
There is an old tug of war – what we think we’re supposed to do with our resources and what actually reflects us. Who’s to say which is ‘right’? So a person might give up money from one set of sponsors – and replace it with money from another – there’s money in porn and clubs too. Choosing the life you want can be risky on many levels.
Most of us when we look in deep won’t face the bright lights over our decisions. But if we really reflect, decide, and then act, we might be rocking a boat that makes everybody around us really nervous. It’s the kind of radical act that can send friends fleeing, loved ones questioning our sanity, and colleagues deriding our stability. Sometimes the price of living inside boundaries that don’t fit can be that time will pass, facades will cement, and we might get lost. The rewards for taking the risk though, include being at peace with the connection of your resources to who you are. For some it may not be pretty, but for most it will be freeing; allowing passion to blossom. They are likely to inspire others to inch closer to their own dreams.
It also calls our bluff. So, it’s 2010 and are you satisfied you are in the life you were meant to live? If the biggest downside risk is that someone else might not approve, you’ll need to weigh that against you knowing you are in the wrong life and agreeing to stay there for the comfort of others.
The connection between how we spend our time and how we use our money to support that has never been unimportant. Here we are at the cusp of another new year. How will you spend this one? How will you spend the rest of your summers, your springs, your autumns, and your winters? With whom? Where? Time is short, it’s always later than we think and I invite you to discover for yourself the life you were meant to live. Risk it now.

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