| Are you putting your life on hold for the sake of | | | | career change, before your inner resentment festers |
| others? Are you making excuses to avoid the deeply | | | | to an ugly explosion, take action today on those ideas |
| embedded impulse you feel? Maybe you've thought | | | | you've had on the backburner. |
| you're just being selfish if you make this career change | | | | Your unique mixture of gifts, talents, ideas and skills are |
| now. Is it really being selfish? Maybe it is being selfish if | | | | a one of a kind original. After you leave this golf ball of |
| you die without letting the world hear the unique | | | | a planet, there will never be another like you. There |
| message you've been given. | | | | would never be another message like yours. The truth |
| I'm intrigued by the many women who place their lives | | | | is you can't do anything you want to do but you can |
| on hold for the sake of the family. But many women | | | | do everything you're created to do. So whatever has |
| have ideas, resources, gifts that may go untapped | | | | been nagging at your heart, calling out to your soul |
| because they've put themselves on the backburner. | | | | take the time today for the sake of those you love to |
| We should live our lives as if there were no limits to | | | | listen, to decide and to act. |
| our abilities. Hence, excuses are difficult for me. So | | | | What would this world be like if Harriet Tubman said I'll |
| even when I make them, I give myself the swift kick I | | | | just sit here and make the most of my slavery? Do |
| need to get moving. | | | | you have a cause you're passionate about but waiting |
| Some women have a deeply embedded mindset that | | | | for someone else to take the lead? Better yet, what |
| pursuing a career path they love is selfish. I'm baffled | | | | would have happened if Abraham Lincoln never read |
| by this. Why? Think about your health, your | | | | Harriet Stowe's work on Uncle Tom's Cabin? Do you |
| relationships, about you as a person? You see the | | | | have the next great American novel in your head or |
| danger in putting yourself on the backburner is the | | | | on your laptop? These women have one thing in |
| residual resentment that develops over time and | | | | common. They all began without the proverbial silver |
| festers and ultimately explodes. | | | | spoon. They all possessed passion, purpose and |
| Put On Your Oxygen Mask First | | | | persistence. |
| Ever been on a trip? Do you remember your pre-flight | | | | So are you being selfish? Do you have an idea that |
| instruction? The stewardess always instructs the | | | | you've dismissed as too impractical or unrealistic? |
| passengers to put on their oxygen masks first before | | | | What have you been "itching" to do but have put aside |
| attending to anyone else. Have you ever wondered | | | | for some other day? Whatever it is, I can tell you your |
| why? You can't help others until you yourself have | | | | world has been waiting for it. You were granted the |
| fully developed. You can't give what you don't have. | | | | rights and responsibility for its care. I hope you don't |
| You help others more by helping yourself. So if you're | | | | bury it and leave it undeveloped and uncultivated any |
| stuck in a job you hate and you want to make a | | | | longer. |