What if I were to tell you that you have more time than you think you have?

Asking to be successful without understanding what needs to be done and without putting in the work to do it is like asking for a raise after one week of working at a new job. It just won’t happen. The effort is on every level of being. It takes mental, emotional, physical and spiritual energy to be successful at something.

Do you run around doing exactly the same thing that you always do and tell everyone

that you don’t have enough time to do what you really want to do? Of course, this is insanity. Of course you have enough time! Everywhere I go people are walking down the street not looking at where they are or what’s around them. They are instead looking at their cell phone. They’re probably looking at Facebook Reels or something, everyone knows what a time suck that can be.

Do you participate in what is tangible and in front of you? Most people don’t. We live in a virtual world and easily blast out comments that we would NEVER have the nerve to say to anyone in person. We have become robots instead of humans, fully programmed by mega corporations. do you wonder then why you are so angry? When you are so busy wasting your time that you no longer give your time to that which you love? Instead, you find yourself running around, trying to make enough money for all the things that you are accustomed to. You find yourself scrambling to make money with your time instead of pouring yourself into your passions. Then, once the end of your shift rolls around, you give your time and power to mega corporations. We are a society of dreamers not doers. Doing has been stripped from us. Live interaction has been stripped from us. So many have become directionless and when we do have a goal, we’re just too tired to complete it or give it any time at all. Even when we do give it time it’s not enough because the Internet is a place of trillions of people who are all trying to accomplish similar objectives.

So the question stands, what is your passion? Do you know what it is? Or are you too busy commenting on other peoples lives? Are you too busy checking your email, getting lost in Instagram or just researching whatever you happen to come across on the Internet? Have you taken the time to ask yourself what you love and what gets you fired up? Most people are not even aware of these things anymore. Our paths were cut out for us in whatever environment we grew up in. The vast majority of people never attempt to go beyond this.

Is this what you want for yourself though? Do you want what is supposed to be the cookie cutter existence? It’s different everywhere you go but it’s the same in that it’s not your creation, it belongs to a mega corporation or an influencer or maybe that FB friend who posts all day and gets tons of comments. What about you? Have you dared to dream something and then got to work on it? Are you dreaming your dream into Reality? If not, don’t you think it’s time to get clear on where your present actions are taking you and cut out time for what you actually want instead? What are you waiting for? Retirement? Do you know how many people get sick and die very soon after retirement? Please don’t wait. No one has time, right? But this is obviously untrue. We have all the time we create in our schedule…pencil in time for the steps that will make your dreams come true.

~Janice M. Burke

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