The “Someday” Thought
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How many of us think that we are okay to do what we are doing now – even though we know it’s not what we’ll be doing in the future?
Many of us that don’t have extreme skills to visualize what the future will be like – as a consequence of today, tomorrow and the next day. I’ve totally fallen into the “someday” thought process, which is a rather easy trap to fall into. Here’s a short excerpt from a story at The Simple Dollar…
“Someday, things will change for me and my ship will come in,” Helen said.
Helen and I had each just gone through a trial by fire at our respective new jobs. Since we were old friends from our college days, we agreed to eat lunch together and effectively allow each other to vent about the difficult and sometimes seemingly unfair challenges we faced.
When I heard Helen talk about her ship coming in, though, I had a strange feeling inside of me. If she keeps sitting there by the dock waiting, her ship will never come in. If she’s genuinely unhappy with things to the point that she’s pinning her hopes on an unforeseen windfall, she’s doing nothing more than ensuring the continuation of her own misery.
In Helen’s comment, I saw myself. It scared me, and it made me want to start something new.
Falsely justifying your actions. That’s what you end up doing if you are banking on your future self being different. You are basically telling yourself, making excuses for yourself, whatever you want to call it – to keep doing what you are doing when you know it’s not getting you where you ultimately want to go.
It’s simple if you want it to be.
This struck a chord with me immediately. After I read this – I definitely looked inside for a minute because I fall in to that trap. My actions today versus where I want to be in the future aren’t exactly on the same page. I have goals and visions of where I want to be in the future, but I probably don’t focus on it enough as I operate and navigate through each day, week, month and year.
It’s something you should feel and know immediately. Think about it. Will you … someday?
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Michael,
Hello! Really great posting and followed EXACTLY what I was considering for myself just yesterday. I read it twice to myself and have shared with others! Thanks for sharing with us to remind us that “someday” can be today if we want it to be!
Michael
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Michael,
Thanks for visiting! It’s a great thing to think about from time to time. As I said, banking on a different future self isn’t how life should be lived!!
Mike P
yes that’s one dangerous trap, thanks for making us aware of it
As always – thanks a lot for checking in Farouk!
“It’s simple if you want it to be.”
Thats such a true statement. People often are so stuck in a situation they don’t really understand the gravity of it. In most scenarios things are hardly as bad as they seem.
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