Let us wait and see, wishing for greatness
WHEN change happens, not everyone will welcome it and move forward. Others remain stuck in the past, second guessing, in denial, calling for further waiting and looking for new excuses. When the rain comes, plant. When the train comes, board instead of sitting and waiting for the next one.
Do not be left behind because you were dreaming of perfect circumstances and thinking life should be on your terms. In any situation, there are some that remain sitting on the fence with a “wait and see” attitude.
“Wait and see” is giving up responsibility and adopting the posture and mindset of a victim. Who do you wait for when you are the protagonist? Whatever you are waiting for is also waiting for you to show up. You are the silver bullet and the actor.
My old professor sadly used to say, sitting on the fence is the shortest way of being castrated. The biggest risk of all in any situation is to risk nothing. “Lets wait and see” is carelessly risky and reactive posture and attitude that robs you of action, energy and initiative.
Take sides
It is better to take sides and be wrong than to take no side at all and hope to be celebrated as having been right.
It is not enough to wait on the sidelines and remain in the shadows waiting for the earliest opportunity to criticise and jeer. Throw away caution of a coward and join the opposition called positive progressive action.
Things do not change by being looked at, feared and procrastinated. Your life changes through proactive and resolute action. There is big work to do and there is small work to do. Find your space and fill it with positive radical action. Instead of waiting in sombre negativity, join the opposition called “the positive ones” and create the future.
Fight the negative through positive action. Align with progress and not regression. You do not afford the luxury of remaining parked in the past and fighting baseless battles. Instead of being lukewarm, burn with positive passion. Instead of sitting, stand and be counted. Instead of criticising take positive action. Life is not waiting and the “wait and see” posture to life is wasting time, space and opportunity.
Perhaps tomorrow
Procrastination is a very convenient excuse, killer of dreams and assassinator of potential. To move forward, reduce the number of things that you postpone to tomorrow. Let us “wait and see” is death by procrastination. Today is the tomorrow that you talked about yesterday. You are not getting any younger.
Stop living your life in “pay forward” mode. Stop playing pingpong with life. Step up and take forward action. Whatever you want to see, work to manifest it. You cannot delay everything — dreaming, action and responsibility. Whatever you want to be, do it and do not wait for someone else to do it for you.
Tomorrow is for those who are in the “wait and see mode.” It is the day reserved for the lazy who hope that success is created for them to inherit without doing any work. You are not lazy and for you there is no luxury of the “wait and see.” Tomorrow is the day when those who gamble with the future succeed. It is when the failures will succeed.
Bless tomorrow, because those who live there leave today unlived, unloved and undone. Act now, and engage now. Tomorrow is only guaranteed by today and not the wishes of fate.
Edgar Albert Guest bequeathed to us the following poem entitled: “Tomorrow.”: “Tomorrow He was going to be all that a mortal should be Tomorrow. No one should be kinder or braver than he Tomorrow. A friend who was troubled and weary he knew,
Who’d be glad of a lift and who needed it, too;
On him he would call and see what he could do Tomorrow. Each morning he stacked up the letters he’d write Tomorrow. And thought of the folks he would fill with delight Tomorrow. It was too bad, indeed, he was busy today,
And hadn’t a minute to stop on his way;
More time he would have to give others, he’d say Tomorrow. The greatest of workers this man would have been Tomorrow. The world would have known him, had he ever seen Tomorrow. But the fact is he died and he faded from view,
And all that he left here when living was through
Was a mountain of things he intended to do
Tomorrow.”
Precious now
While you are waiting to see, others are moving with focus and despatch. There are opportunities at this time that will never be available again. If you do not move now you will be mourning,
“If only!” Now is precious and should not be wasted in hesitation and while waiting and hoping to see. By the time you “see”, you may be too late.
You are not an energy vampire, sucking motivation out of those that are taking action. Join the action crusade of goal-getters. Choose to act now and start moving. While others are fearful and hesitating, just take action and move forward.
You gain momentum as you move. While others are resting and thinking that yesterday is coming back, take action and march forward.
Now is all you have and all you will ever have to work with. The past is history and the future is mere hope. If anything is to be, it is up to you. This is the attitude of responsibility and the challenge of action and progress.
Walk where others fear to walk because they are looking for firm ground for risk-less navigation. Nothing in life is assured. It is faith alone that is the supreme motivator and driver of action.
Work when others rest hoping that someone else is occupying their work-shift. Nothing comes while you wait in idleness and wither in despair. The luxury of sitting by the sidelines in not for you or an option if you desire greatness. Now is the call for you to get into the ring and take action.
Be proactive
Having a “lets-wait-and-see” attitude is choosing to be reactive and not proactive. Greatness comes to those who move, and not wait to be moved.
Step forward and be proactive. Choose to act and not wait to be acted upon. Life does not just happen, you happen on it by choice and deliberate intent. Instead of waiting for things to happen on you, get up and happen on things yourself.
Instead of waiting for someone to bring flowers to your doorstep, plant your garden and decorate your own soul and life. Instead of waiting for every traffic light to be green before you start to drive, navigate the obstacles on your way to greatness.
Instead of waiting for every cloud to clear before you launch into the sky, launch and fly above the clouds of despair. When you are focusing on goals that matter, you have no patience for unnecessary delays and fruitless debates. When you are clear about your destiny, you work daily to make it happen. Do it now.
Do not just idly wait for the rain, prepare your fields and take action. You do not dig a well when you are thirsty. That’s too late and not proactive. You do not have the luxury to just wait and see your accidental greatness. Act and move forward. You start by starting.
Committed to your greatness.
Waiting to see is an excuse for laziness and an ugly fear to commit to positive action now. Greatness favours those who in their tide take bold visionary actions instead of waiting for commentaries.