What are you waiting for?

Maybe now is the time.

The poet Rumi wrote, "I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung."

How often do we allow ourselves to become distracted by the details of life while ignoring the important things such as living our life purpose. It’s easier to remain securely nestled under the wings of a fake mother hen than it is to wobble our way across the barnyard where we can stretch our own wings.

Is there something you have always wanted to do or be and you find yourself waiting for the right time, the right opportunity, the right financial situation? While not an advocate of being hasty on one's decision-making or of taking unnecessary risks, I can say I've never seen anyone living their life purpose who didn't have to jump off a cliff at some point. It seems to go with the territory.

 Sometimes people ask, "How do I know this is my life purpose? What if it isn't and I waste my time going down the wrong path?" I say, "There’s never a wrong path. If you’re inspired to walk a particular road, even if it turns out to be an apparent dead end, the walking down that road was part of your life purpose."

Too often, we want guarantees that what we're doing is the right thing and we wait and wait for signs that we’re doing the right thing in the right way at the right time. While we're waiting for signs, life is moving on without us.

How do we know if something is or life purpose? Many times, we don't know until we start walking a particular direction and find ourselves in a different place than where we thought we were headed. 

 Is there something that keeps nagging at you? Is there a particular skill or talent you have that needs expression? Sometimes our life purpose doesn't involve getting paid for what we're doing. Sometimes it is the things we don't receive compensation for that are the most important things we can do. Some people find their life purpose is some sort of volunteer work and their paid job is to support the ability to do the volunteer work. Others don’t find their life purpose until they retire from paid work and feel free to follow their heart.

 Here are three things you can do if you would like to quit stringing and unstringing your instrument and begin to make the music you are here to make - the music the rest of us are waiting to hear.

First, ask the question: "Is this my life purpose right now? Is this what my soul wants to do?" Once you have an affirmative, take the second step.

“How am I to do this? Please show me the way, the means, introduce me to the people I need to meet, the places I need to go.” Ask for help.

Third, be willing to take the first step, even if it is scary. You’ll never know if this particular path is yours unless you begin walking down it. 

Trust that you will be shown the way. Trust that even if it looks like you've failed, you haven't. If the first road you walk down isn't your path, know there will be some sort of byway or side road that will beckon you. Take the turn or twist in the road and walk that way.

Personally, I have failed many times in my life which is why I know for a fact that failure doesn’t exist. What sometimes appears as failure to the world is only a change of plans.

We are never alone. We can't make mistakes. Life is to be lived. Get busy and string your instrument and play the song that only you can sing. The rest of us are waiting to hear you, to applaud you, and to celebrate another soul finding their voice and using it.

Living in grace and ease,

Krysta