come alive.

This trust30 prompt was a tough one.

Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you had one week left to live, would you still be doing what you’re doing now? In what areas of your life are you preparing to live? Take them off your To Do list and add them to a To Stop list. Resolve to only do what makes you come alive.

Bonus: How can your goals improve the present and not keep you in a perpetual “always something better” spiral?

(Author: Jonathan Mead)

I don't think I put myself out there enough. I think I have big plans for that, but I'm constantly telling myself that I'll do better tomorrow. I just need more motivation, more confidence, more time. But I guess the thing is, I'm really not guaranteed that time - am I?

I'm a big to-do lister. Just ask Nate. I make list after list after list. I'll add things I want to do and I honestly plan on doing with every good intention. But most of the time, they never get done.

I think that in order to truly put myself out there, to truly get things done and make a difference, to truly LIVE I need to start putting those things that are hardest for me and that I know deep down at the end of the day aren't going to have a line through them at the top of my list. And I need to force myself to complete those things before I even touch anything else. Because once I've faced what I think can't be faced, it becomes just a little bit easier and I can begin to live just a little bit more each day.

I have to thank Nate, in part, for these revelations. He's been placing some of these ideas in my head bit by bit for awhile now. ;)


And as always, I open the topic up to the readers. Any ideas on this topic?