Being Brave & Moving Forward
Aundra Dyke
I believe in moving forward and upward at all times. Any stopping must be to smell the roses before we move forward to find the garden in another location. Many times life throws us curve balls and places us on a road we didn’t plan to be on. It wasn’t a part of our ‘map’. We become stagnant and frozen…
…frozen in fear, in doubt…
BUT THIS IS THE TIME TO START MOVING!
Aundra Dyke is a most inspiring woman I met on Twitter, Her site is reflective and filled with wonderful motivational tips and food for thought. She is my guest blogger today speaking on being brave and moving forward in the face of fear. Enjoy her words…I know I did!!!
Aundra:
If we move beyond where we are the past cannot follow………
Have you ever felt stalled, paused, stuck, resting or waiting? I’m sure you’ve gotten that feeling of not moving forward or even shifting at the moment. Some of us spend weeks and days reflecting on our lives, we lose sleep over it, obsess over it, analyze and re-analyze. Sometimes we come up with half-way decent answers and other times we find ourselves at a complete loss for words. The private meetings we seem to hold in our heads can lead to confusion and chaos.
I’m convinced that this anxiety running through my life is the tension between what I “should be” and what I am. My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it. It seems to begin whenever I smuggle into my mind an expectation about how I or others should be. It is the tension between my desire to control the world and the recognition that I can’t.
It is never a good idea to bank on what we may have tomorrow. It makes even less sense to dwell on what we had yesterday. The only thing that really matters is what we can do right now.
One of our greatest stress inducers in our life is tomorrow, for it is the unknown. We tend to worry if “it” will happen, if “it” would happen, what if “it” does happen. Then we spend time planning for what may never come. We do that because we think we know the past. We remember it so well, particularly the pain, the dark days and the unpleasantness we’ve seen. Most of us are stuck in the memory, ideals, pain or trauma of the past. At times we hold the people around us responsible for the things they did to us in yesteryear.
We also spend our present time and energy protecting the future from the past. We fail to realize one is over the other as yet to come. What we know is now and what we have complete control over is—- now. Try to remember that nothing can be promised, nor can we own what is no longer. If we do our best in this moment, we have no time to worry about what may come or has gone.
Life doesn’t have to be a strain or a struggle, when the time comes for growth and change, we MUST have the courage and faith to let go.
Whatever leaves my life makes room for something better
This post was submitted by Aundra Dyke
Are you facing a similar challenge in your own life? Are you at a crossroads or on a road you didn’t think you would find yourself? Share your story and your decision to MOVE FORWARD!
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