It's been a minute. That's always been my problem with projects I start things and then I get sidetracked....
Despite that This little piece of my soul received some incredible news yesterday, Helen Problems, is up for Barkleigh Honor Blog of the year. It feels both incredible and surreal.
Although I am sure I will have more to say about that incredible honor, I want to talk about time.
I've always had a funky relationship with time. I was pretty much born a procrastinator; my mother went into the hospital watching Saturday morning cartoons and I finally appeared in the late afternoon.
But time is the most valuable currency we have. You cannot make more of it, and once it's gone it's gone. So where and how we spend our time are two of the most important decisions we will ever make.
I've not always valued my time... I have spent too much on things that did not serve me or my goals, wasted it worried about other people's feelings or thoughts about me, did not charge appropriately when I was giving it to someone else, but what I squandered it the most on was tomorrows.
I wanted to compete for years before I actually stepped in the ring. I wanted to finish my certifications for even longer before I started...and I swear to you I started my ISCC certification probably a decade ago and it's still not done.
I think about where I would be now if I had focused and went for my goals instead of wasting time. I could be in the top ten already. I could be on the travel team. I could have been speaking for years....
But I realize too, that time does things in its own way... I wasn't ready or stable in my life enough before to focus on my goals. I hadn't learned enough yet to impart wisdom, because I had not lived enough yet. Although I feel like I've wasted time, I've been heading this way my entire life.
I see new people in the face book groups asking about competing, or saying they want to one day... If you are that person, don't let opportunities slip by you. If you are thinking about it, you are ready. No matter what happens in that ring (or life), you are never too old, never too young, It's time.
Anything you don't know about competing you will learn by doing, and there will people all around you willing to help, you just need to ask. Take your time back and invest it in passion.
I'm still processing this year and all of the little dreams I have for myself starting to come true. For a long time I think I've been scared of my potential; scared of letting myself believe I was good enough, smart enough, strong enough... But I am and always have been more than just enough, and so are you. Spend time for yourself, dreams, goals, passion projects... It will never be a wasted minute.
