I was sitting on a hard blue seat in an airport shuttle with a brown to-go box resting in my hands. It was keeping my food semi-warm, but I could feel the steam pushing through the cracks of the container. The shuttle came to its first stop, and a man of shorter height got on with a bag of food from Popeye’s chicken. He smiled, looked at my brown to-go box, and said, you have lunch? You want to trade? You might like what I have better. I laughed it off and shook my head, not giving much of a response.
But we all do it, don’t we? We pay for things we don’t really want – with our money, our time and our labor. It’s not that we offer our time and efforts to corrupt things, they are tolerable, but subconsciously we pass up opportunities to capitalize on great things for the sake of convenience.
As I was thinking more about this idea, I decided to Google, “why people don’t go after what they really want.”
Some of the things I came across were:
- Lack of clarity – they don’t really know what you want.
- Behavioral challenges – they’ve consistently struggled with making changes.
- Beliefs – They are not sure they are worthy or capable.
- Comfortable – They are comfortable, and it’s convenient to stay where they are.
I don’t know if that man sitting across from me on the shuttle truly didn’t want his food or if he was trying to spark conversation. But I am sure of this: there are many of us traveling through our days with things in our hands we aren’t really excited about. And that’s no way to move through life.
What is that you really want? What have you stopped praying for because bearing the disappointment of not having it would produce a wound you’re not sure you could recover from? When did you begin to believe that you had to settle for what was within reach? When did you stop going after what you really wanted?
To have open hands to receive what you really want, you have to be willing to pass up on what’s within reach.
Moving from California to Texas seven years ago taught me courage, but it also taught me that there are no bounds on opportunities. The move wasn’t easy. It required more time and money than other options would, but it sure was worth it.
What’s standing in the way of you from going after what you want? If you don’t have clarity, do the work of figuring it out. If you can’t figure it out on your own, ask someone who knows you well to help or consider hiring a life coach. If you know you need to make some behavioral changes, get an accountability partner. If you don’t believe you are worthy or capable, speak the truth of God’s Word to yourself until you do! And if you are comfortable, move! Comfort will not get you where you want to go.
It won’t be easy, but I promise if you do work to move towards what you really want, once you get a chance to sit down, you will truly enjoy what you find in your hands.
You get this one life, don’t use is it on things that don’t light a fire in you. Go after what you really want.
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