Are you living your life or just coasting through life?

Ashley Greencorn
Aug 8, 2016
2 min read

Days become weeks, weeks become months and life sometimes seems to become a big blur. We settle in and accept the status quo. We tell ourselves, “it is what it is”. We tell ourselves that we are going to change and start doing the things we want to do and starting living our lives to the fullest. Often at times when we keep telling ourselves this but don’t end up doing it. We get in the same routine, day after day, months after months and sometimes years after years. Eventually we get bored, we sit there and daydream about the future— that “someday” vacation, that “someday” promotion, that “someday” house, that “someday” new car. We keep making up bullshit excuses and having the mindset of “it will never happen” or “it will happen someday”.

Every so often we snap out of the “so called routine” we have convinced ourselves to live in and decide enough is enough.

A year ago, I kept telling myself over and over “it is what it is” and had a negative mindset. Until I had a huge wake up call and realized that “someday” may not come, that “someday” may end up never happening, that someday ends up turning into a recurring thought in the back of your mind that will never happen. When you have that mindset you will keep putting your dreams and goals on the back burner because you think they will never become real. That they aren’t a reality, they are just your dreams. But that’s bullshit. You want to know why? Because a dream without a plan is just a wish and it is not going to happen if you keep telling yourself the same lame excuses day after day, week after week, month after month. Your mind is the only thing that is holding you back, no one else.

Everyday you wake up and you decide if you are going to have a great day or a shitty day. Everyday you wake up and decide if you are going to enjoy life or your just living on auto pilot.

You have two choices, that every day I wake up I am going to enjoy every opportunity that life presents to me or I am going to keep making up lame excuses and be miserable. It is up to you to decide if you want to live your life or not. It is up to you to decide if you are going to react positive or negative in any situation that happens. You control what you decide to worry about or not. No more autopilot, no more coasting, no more waiting for future events. Today is a great day and I’m going to live life to the max. Once today is gone I can’t get it back.

Take control of your “today”. You’re the only victim if you don’t. Nobody else will do it for you. Don’t wait for a better tomorrow, make today great! Make everyday great.